Re: Mathematica debugger
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- Subject: [mg117666] Re: Mathematica debugger
- From: David Bailey <dave at removedbailey.co.uk>
- Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 06:56:42 -0500 (EST)
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On 24/03/2011 11:30, Michael Stern wrote: > Can anybody point me to a useful tutorial on the Mathematica debugger? I > can make it work for toy problems, but as soon as I get to code of > meaningful complexity, the debugger seems not to work at all. I set > breakpoints and the code never pauses, even though I know the marked > functions are being reached. > > Also, is it possible to set a breakpoint on a single line of a > multi-line function? > > Thanks greatly, > > Michael > I came to the conclusion that the built-in debugger was essentially useless, so I wrote my own! You might want to try my free DebugTrace package - available from my website. Note that it comes with a sensible amount of documentation. Comments or suggestions would be welcome. David Bailey http://www.dbaileyconsultancy.co.uk