On Dec 28, 2005, at 12:07 PM, Hunter Kelly wrote:
Yes, thank you, that did the trick! It produced the output for all
steps,
and in the order I would expect.
Are there other techniques that people use to get debugging output?
Well, if you are writing code in the IO monad, obviously you can just
insert 'putStrLn', just like in your favorite imperative language.
For pure code, I generally try to write small functions and then
compose them to do larger tasks. That way I can exercise each
smaller function individually and see that I get the results I
expect. It is also more likely that your functions will just be
"obviously correct".
If that isn't possible for some reason I go to Debug.Trace and try to
find good places to sprinkle in the calls to 'trace'. I find that
attaching them to control structures usually works best.
If that doesn't cut it for you, there are also some interactive
Haskell debuggers. (http://www.haskell.org/libraries/#tracing).
Rob Dockins
Speak softly and drive a Sherman tank.
Laugh hard; it's a long way to the bank.
-- TMBG
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