Excuse the language but I think its justified
THIS IS FUCKING AMAZING !!!! Breakpoints are very convenient but I am in love with watchpoints !!!! You guys are amazing ! A million thank you :) As I said to Marcus I imagine some very nice graph visualization of data evolution with roassal for this :) On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 4:18 PM Johan Fabry <jfa...@dcc.uchile.cl> wrote: > Hi all, > > Marcus, Miguel Campusano and me have been working the last few weeks on > getting breakpoints and watchpoints working for Pharo 5. Since a few days > we have functionality that works for many cases and that is easily > accessible. It’s really cool, I urge you to try it out! > > Breakpoints: > In Nautilus in the methods list you can add a breakpoint to a method, as > well as a breakpoint that triggers once, or a breakpoint that takes a > condition. (The last is still a bit complicated. Marcus promised that he > will clean that up :-).) Also in the code pane the suggestions menu allows > you to add a breakpoint to expressions. They will be highlighted in red, > and an icon appears in the gutter. Clicking it removes the breakpoint and > also bringing up the suggestions menu allows you to remove them. > > Watchpoints: > Watchpoints are a simple mechanism to log the results of specific > expressions. In the code pane the suggestions menu allows you to set a > watchpoint. The expression is highlighted in red and in the gutter a green > ball appears. Click it and you will have a simple UI that shows the last > values recorded. (Actually the watchpoint records every execution and never > throws anything away, so this can become a memory hog, be careful.) You can > remove the watchpoint from the UI and from the suggestions menu. > > In our experiments we found both very useful and powerful, try them out > and be sure to tell us if there are any problems > > ---> Save our in-boxes! http://emailcharter.org <--- > > Johan Fabry - http://pleiad.cl/~jfabry > PLEIAD and RyCh labs - Computer Science Department (DCC) - University > of Chile > > >
