[Haskell-cafe] Re: how do you debug programs?

[Tamas K Papp]

On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 06:33:32AM -0400, Lennart Augustsson wrote:
> I've also used Visual Studio, and I wouldn't mind having something  
> like that for Haskell.  But I have to agree with Jon, I think the  
> best way of debugging is to understand your code.  I think people who  
> come from imperative programming come with a mind set that you  
> understand your code by stepping through it in the debugger.  But I  
> find this paradigm much less useful for functional code.

At this point, I need debugging not because I don't understand my
code, but because I don't understand Haskell ;-) Most of the mistakes
I make are related to indentation, precedence (need to remember that
function application binds tightly).  The compiler and the type system
catches some mistakes, but a few remain.

Thanks for the suggestions.

Tamas