[squeak-dev] Break points (was: What turns off newcomers)

Bert Freudenberg bert at freudenbergs.de
Wed Apr 9 19:13:49 UTC 2008


On 09.04.2008, at 12:03, Andreas Wacknitz wrote:
>
> Am 09.04.2008 um 18:59 schrieb Ken G. Brown:
>
>> One thing that really bothered me when first starting out with  
>> Squeak, was the requirement for modifying code in order add 'self  
>> halt' to work with the debugger.
>> I still find that to be bothersome. Intuitively it seems to me that  
>> breakpoints should have no way to modify code.
>>
> Yes, that is a point that annoys me, too.
> Even Dolphin Smalltalk has this drawback, but there is a  
> sophisticated solution in Tools+ (by Solutions Software) called  
> Method Spies.


Actually, Squeak has break points. Click on a method in the system  
browser, and choose "toggle break on entry".

Problem is the highlighting in the method list has been broken for  
some while, methods with break points used to be marked.

- Bert -





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