Re: Debugger
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- Subject: [mg92036] Re: Debugger
- From: David Bailey <dave at Remove_Thisdbailey.co.uk>
- Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2008 06:11:56 -0400 (EDT)
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magma wrote: > Hi David, > I used your M-Debug for a while with Mathematica 5.x and it was a real > pleasure. > Easy and well documented. > Unfortunately it does not seem to work any longer in Mathematica 6.0 (I tried > a couple of times). > Would it be possible for you to update it and make it usable with the > "6th generation" ? > I think many Mathematica users would appreciate it. > > Thanks for your comments! Unfortunately, the debugger will not work with 6.0 - I know. I am toying with the idea of making a debugger that would work exclusively with .m (package) files - which need not, of course, contain a package. Such a file could be read in by the debugger and pre-processed to insert line number information - thus avoiding the use of TraceScan and the heavy overhead per step. This approach would preserve the line number information and would probably run acceptably fast. I guess I am waiting for the next release of Mathematica to see if they make the debugger more usable - if they don't, I will probably release something. David Bailey http://www.dbaileyconsultancy.co.uk