[OT] Plovdiv . . . / hard CASE

[Richmond Mathewson]

  On 25/05/2010 20:25, J. Landman Gay wrote:
> Richmond Mathewson wrote:
>
>> Tonight I am disciplining myself to work through my CASE problem;
>> where a CASE loop goes AWOL when the stack becomes a standalone.
>
> There's not enough info to say what's going wrong, but you'd save 
> yourself a lot of time if you set a breakpoint near the top of the 
> switch structure and step through it line by line. That would show you 
> whether a case instance is executing or not, which line of the script 
> isn't activating, what the state of the variables are, whether or not 
> the engine thinks a group is visible, and so forth. Without that, it's 
> just stabbing in the dark trying to guess what's happening.
>
Thanks so much; you caught me before the time I would
have wasted had I not had your advice.

Richmond.