On 30 December 2014 at 11:14, Manu <turkey...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 29 December 2014 at 15:44, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d > <digitalmars-d@puremagic.com> wrote: >> On 12/20/2014 10:08 AM, Daniel Davidson wrote: >>> >>> Sure, sounds like a winning strategy. Probably not applicable, but were >>> you to >>> run into an issue with vibe or websockets would you proceed to write >>> pretty >>> printers for the supplied data structures, the returned data structures, >>> etc, >> >> >> probably yes, as I've done so when given someone else's program to debug. >> Writing a pretty-printer is often the first thing I do, as it also helps >> enormously in learning the data structures > > That if you don't have source to the library? (as is the overwhelming > standard in my line of work) > You can't instrument code that you don't have.
* what if... Sorry, posting from a phone is really tedious! >_< Anyway, I know you understand the debugging experience is very important. You won't change our opinion on this matter with anecdote, it is immutable. ;)