Re: [DrJava] (debugger)

[Eric E. A. <ea...@cs...>]

JBuilder Professional allows you to create standing expressions that are
evaluated at every breakpoint (I'm not sure about the free version). This
is sloppy and stupid, because many of those expressions will be
non-sensical inside most scopes! In those cases, JBuilder just says the
expressions are undefined. Also, it's cumbersome to add in new
expressions. They are dancing around the right answer, which is clear to
us because we have a repl built into the IDE.

-- Eric



On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, Brian Stoler wrote:

> If we can integrate a debugger, and then if we can make it so that you can
> pop to the REPL at a breakpoint (in the scope you stopped in), we will
> rule the world.
>
> Imagine that: The ability to stop the program during execution and then to
> be able to enter arbitrary statements/expressions! I don't think any
> mainstream language has a debugger with such support. (I think some allow
> interpretation of expressions w/o side effects.)
>
> -brian
>
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