Question about the debugger

Stephane Ducasse ducasse at iam.unibe.ch
Wed Jul 30 10:50:41 UTC 2003


On Tuesday, July 29, 2003, at 06:56 PM, Anthony Hannan wrote:

> Stephane Ducasse <ducasse at iam.unibe.ch> wrote:
>> What would be good is to have a "proceed" or restart that would take
>> into account
>> the change done to the variable in the environment or instance
>> variables.
>> Because now if you change a variable in fact you can select an
>> expression and the
>> expression will access the changed value but if you proceed this will
>> not.
>
> On proceed, statements after the breakpoint will see the changed value.
> Only restart nils the temps.

Ahh this was I was expecting but it was not working on 3.5. I will 
recheck


>
>> So I thought this could be confusing for new guys. This is only 
>> because
>> I play
>> naively with the debugger that I noticed this kind of "not so good"
>> behavior.
>
> Maybe restart should start from the currently highlighted text, instead
> of from the beginning of the current context.  This way you can change 
> a
> value and restart from where you like.  Maybe we should have a 
> step-back
> button too so you don't have to highlight manually.
>
> Cheers,
> Anthony
>



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