GHCi debugger status
Simon Marlow
marlowsd at gmail.com
Tue Nov 25 06:02:50 EST 2008
Claus Reinke wrote:
> Consider this code and session:
>
> f x y z | x<y = z
> | otherwise = z*y
>
...
> Things to note:
>
> - when reaching the breakpoint "in" 'f', one isn't actually in 'f' yet -
> nothing
> about 'f' can be inspected
> - at no point in the session was 'x' inspectable, even though it is
> likely to
> contain information needed to understand 'f', especially when we are
> deep in a recursion of a function that can be called from many places;
> this information doesn't happen to be needed in the current branch,
> but debugging the current expression always happens in a context, and
> accessing information about this context is what the GHCi debugger
> doesn't seem to support well
>
> In this particular example, the second item is most likely a bug (the
> free variables of the guard were never offered for inspection).
Indeed it was a bug, the same as #2740, and I've just fixed it. Thanks for
boiling it down to a nice small example.
Cheers,
Simon
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