On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 8:34 PM, Tim Allen <[email protected]> wrote: > Although I'd known about the existence of Factor for a long time, > I actually started playing with it this weekend when I discovered the > Beginning Factor series of blog-posts at elasticdog.com. I haven't > written very much code so far, but I've enjoyed learning about the > language and the environment and how open and introspective the whole > thing is - I'm reminded of stories I've heard of old Lisp machines where > you could use the debugger to single-step from your application code all > the way down into the hardware drivers. :)
Excellent! Welcome to the community. I have applied both of your patches. > I also have a suggestion for the documentation: as I was playing with > things I wanted to trace through the code and watch it executing so > I could get a better idea of how it worked. In most IDEs that's the job > of the debugger, so I opened up the Factor documentation and navigated > "Environment reference" -> "Developer tools" -> "Debugging tools"... but > the only items were "Word annotations", "Unit testing" and "Listing > threads", none of which seemed appropriate. Eventually I discovered > a thing called the "Walker" was what I wanted, but it would have been > nice if it had been listed under "Debugging tools" to begin with. Thanks for the suggestion, I've added a link. Slava ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It is the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://p.sf.net/sfu/Xq1LFB _______________________________________________ Factor-talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/factor-talk
