Re: PDD for debugger

2001-05-03 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 03:11 PM 5/2/2001 -0700, Dave Storrs wrote: >On Tue, 1 May 2001, Dan Sugalski wrote: > > > Right. What I'm thinking would be a good place to get to is a list of the > > functionality that the debugger needs to provide or have available to it > > from the interpreter, rather than the actual in

Re: PDD for debugger

2001-05-02 Thread Dave Storrs
On Tue, 1 May 2001, Dan Sugalski wrote: > Right. What I'm thinking would be a good place to get to is a list of the > functionality that the debugger needs to provide or have available to it > from the interpreter, rather than the actual interface to the user. (Which > is important, but a se

Re: PDD for debugger

2001-05-01 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 12:01 PM 4/27/2001 -0700, Dave Storrs wrote: >On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Dan Sugalski wrote: > > At this stage, it might be better to go through and pull out the concepts > > and capabilities we need, rather than get into the details of user > > interface. Knowing, for example, that we need to provid

Re: PDD for debugger

2001-04-27 Thread Jarkko Hietaniemi
One additional item I thought I had in my yestermessage but apparently forgot: don't forget the regex minilanguage. Debugging it should be an integral part. -- $jhi++; # http://www.iki.fi/jhi/ # There is this special biologist word we use for 'stable'. # It is 'dead'. -- Jack Co

Re: PDD for debugger

2001-04-27 Thread Dave Storrs
Great, thanks very much. Dave On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote: > > > see it.) The debugger must be able to see two scopes at the same time: > > > its own and the debuggee's. > > > > Could you expand on this? > > http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2001-02

Re: PDD for debugger

2001-04-27 Thread Jarkko Hietaniemi
> > see it.) The debugger must be able to see two scopes at the same time: > > its own and the debuggee's. > > Could you expand on this? http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2001-02/msg01613.html for example. -- $jhi++; # http://www.iki.fi/jhi/ # There is th

Re: PDD for debugger

2001-04-27 Thread Dave Storrs
On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Dan Sugalski wrote: > Thanks much for putting this together. I do appreciate it. You are most welcome. I enjoyed it, and I'm looking forward to updating it (though I'm hoping there will be a little more feedback, particularly concerning the new suggestions). >

Re: PDD for debugger

2001-04-27 Thread Dave Storrs
On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote: > > You list the particular commands as 'existing functionality'. I think > this is a mistake, even if you didn't mean it that way, if it was just > an artifact of your presentation format. I know that breaking > debugging habits that have been i

Re: PDD for debugger

2001-04-27 Thread Dan Sugalski
Thanks much for putting this together. I do appreciate it. At this stage, it might be better to go through and pull out the concepts and capabilities we need, rather than get into the details of user interface. Knowing, for example, that we need to provide help is more important at this stage

Re: PDD for debugger

2001-04-26 Thread Jarkko Hietaniemi
You list the particular commands as 'existing functionality'. I think this is a mistake, even if you didn't mean it that way, if it was just an artifact of your presentation format. I know that breaking debugging habits that have been ingrained in at the spinal level may be hard to break, but t

PDD for debugger

2001-04-26 Thread Dave Storrs
=head1 The Perl6 Debugger =head2 Perl-level Debugging =head3 Existing Functionality The following is a list of the functionality in the existing Perl5 debugger; this functionality should, of course, be maintained for backwards compatibility. =over 4 =item T Stack trace. =item