From: Ken Rose <kenrose@tfb.com>
To: donna+spam@cs.cmu.edu
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] How useful do you find the OCaml debugger?
Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2004 08:45:07 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <40212193.30107@tfb.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <!~!AAAAAJOwVq2HeURFjPF/cT+K05uE3isA@cs.cmu.edu>
donna+spam@cs.cmu.edu wrote:
> Hello,
>
> My advisor and I were having a dicussion about the utility of debuggers for
> functional langugages. He was of the opinion that they are not very useful
> at all (for a functional language), and wondered if anyone even uses, for
> instance, the OCaml debugger. Based on google-ing I have done, it looks like
> it *is* used, but it's hard to get a good impression from just a web crawl.
> So:
>
> - Do you personally find the OCaml debugger useful?
My biggest ocaml program is a DSL compiler that's about 6000 lines long,
and has been gradually written over the past 5 years or so. I've been
pretty good about placing assertions in the code - particularly
"assert(false)" in branches that I don't believe should be taken. This
has been very helpful, because when the world proves my opinion wrong,
which it often does, I can just run in the debugger until the assertion
trips, and then back up until I see what happened to produce the
situation I thought was impossible.
- ken
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Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-02-04 4:31 donna+spam
2004-02-04 8:18 ` Jean-Christophe Filliatre
2004-02-04 8:46 ` Thomas Fischbacher
2004-02-04 9:19 ` [Caml-list] " Jan Kybic
2004-02-04 10:15 ` [Caml-list] " Richard Jones
2004-02-04 10:30 ` Pierre Boulet
2004-02-04 15:04 ` Christophe Raffalli
2004-02-04 19:26 ` Kip Macy
2004-02-04 10:36 ` Henri Dubois-Ferriere
2004-02-04 15:38 ` Damien Doligez
2004-02-04 12:52 ` Nuutti Kotivuori
2004-02-04 15:35 ` Damien Doligez
2004-02-04 16:45 ` Ken Rose [this message]
2004-02-04 19:12 ` Issac Trotts
2004-02-22 21:21 ` _JusSx_
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