RE: Displaying functional value in debug

>Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 11:09:43 -0400
>From: Buck Calabro <buck.calabro@aptissoftware.com>
>
>Sorry, it can't be done, and it's a bit depressing.  More valuable to me
>would be the ability to set/reset these BIFs.  About the only way to deal
>with the situation is to use a flag to indicate the value (can you say
>indicator?  :-) )

I know that people were accustomed to displaying and changing the
result indicators on I/O operations in the debugger.  Wishing for the
debugger to support displaying a builtin function is reasonable.
(You can ask, but you won't get.  Some of the feedback bifs do just
return simple variables, but others require code-generation using
compiler internals to calculate the value.  Duplicate this in the
debugger would be impossible.)

These BIFs are not just syntactic replacements for indicators.  They
are functions, and you can't ever set and reset a function; you can
only call it.

Barbara Morris


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