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. ;)

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