Cool. Thanks Andrei. Let me know how I can help. cheers -ben On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 6:14 AM, Andrei Chis <chisvasileandrei@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Ben,
This seems like a nice idea. I think a first version of a debugger that does at least partially what you want is doable. Do you want to give it a try? I can create a basic skeleton of the debugger and then we can iterate.
Cheers, Andrei
On Sun, Jun 5, 2016 at 2:15 PM, Ben Coman <btc@openinworld.com> wrote:
A bit of a pie in the sky idea, but.... I am currently tracing through code like this...
XMLDOMVisitor >> visitDocument: theDocument theDocument nodes do: [ :each | each accept: self ]
and its hard to get a feel for where "each" is in theDocument. I wonder if it would even be possible for the debugger to have a tab that showed a list of "theDocument nodes" with a cursor positioned at "each" ? Maybe the #do: iterator is automatically identified, or maybe you'd need a pragma to define the tab, specifying the list contents and which variable is the cursor. When the program crashes on an item, you could selected an item a few earlier and choose to break on that data value.
So I guess all of it would be tough, but anyway thought I'd share that flash of an idea. cheers -ben