[plt-scheme] PLT's debugger philosophy

From: Jens Axel Soegaard (jensaxel at soegaard.net)
Date: Tue Feb 12 15:14:03 EST 2008

Gregory Cooper wrote:
>>> which incurs some overhead.)  The other differences are primarily in
>>> the user interface.
>> Do you mean that the debugger is just missing an input field where
>> the user would be able to type an expression for the runtime to
>> evaluate in the context of the environment where the debugger has
>> paused?
> 
> Well, it's also missing the code to perform that evaluation.  ;-)  I
> haven't really investigated how hard that would be to write, but the
> environment is available, so it shouldn't require any new
> infrastructure in the debugger.

Is the debugger documented anywhere? I can only find

   http://blog.plt-scheme.org/2007/08/new-debugger-features.html

but I might be looking the wrong place.

-- 
Jens Axel Søgaard



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