debugger
Jerry Jackson
jrj at channelpoint.com
Fri Oct 30 00:10:17 UTC 1998
Hello,
I'm a squeak/Smalltalk novice but I've spent a number of years with
various other environments: Interlisp-D, LispWorks, etc. Unfortunately,
I have to
admit to being extremely puzzled by the squeak debugger!
After inserting a "self halt" into a method and getting into the
debugger,
I'm not sure what "step" and "send" are supposed to do. When I
repeatedly
click on "step", nothing happens visually for a while and then finally
the
current position leaps forward. It's as if I'm stepping through an
inner method
that isn't being displayed then, when it finishes, I leap ahead to some
later
point in the current method. "send" is also mysterious though it
_seems_ to be
more like what I expect "step" to do. It appears to descend into
another method.
I don't have the Smalltalk-80 book that describes the interactive
programming environment.
Can anyone clue me in as to what's going on?
Thanks very much,
Jerry Jackson
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