On Thu, Jun 16, 2022 at 9:32 AM Henry Rich <[email protected]> wrote:
> The debugger gets control at the end of a completed sentence, which may
> complete with error. Sentences in calling functions are in mid-execution.
> There is no way to resume a sentence in execution except by returning to it
> to let it finish.

We are talking about this mechanism, yes?

13!:19 y Cut Back. Cut back one stack level, stopping at the line at
the next stack level.

I see two possibilities for the implementation here:

(a) "Cut Back" throws a specialized error (something like a Value
Error), preventing further execution of the calling statement, or

(b) "Cut Back" returns immediately and uses a
breakpoint-like-mechanism to regain control in the calling statement.

But option (b) corresponds to:
.
[x] 13!:22 y Step Out. Run the current object to completion, starting
with the current line (or line x if specified), stopping at the next
line.

So, ... it doesn't really make sense to me that we'd have 13!:19 if it
was meant to behave like 13!:22.

-- 
Raul
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