Debugging and the execution path

[graham samuel]

Apropos of this long (and very interesting) public conversation with  
Jerry Daniels - I was in it at the beginning but have now been  
swallowed whole by a family Christmas... however, in the discussion  
as to how to refer to a calling script I didn't see an idea close to  
my heart, which is a reliable visual indication of where we left the  
calling script: in the RR debugger this is supposed to be shown by  
the position of the cursor but this is not at all reliable IME. I am  
very much less interested in a 'narrative' style reference,  
particularly if it involves an (inaccessible) line number and a (to  
me) very awkward character count along the line, than just being able  
to eyeball the place the execution came from. As you can see, for me  
at least, the idea of using this kind of information in a script does  
not really figure, and I suspect quite a few others may feel the same.

Just my 2 Eurocents.

Back to the fray

Graham


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Graham Samuel / The Living Fossil Co. / UK and France