RE: %EOF, %FOUND and the infamous Dow loop

I haven't followed today's discussion, so this may have been brought up...

But does the debugger, itself, run in the same activation group as the
debugged program?  (If so, can that be changed for the purpose of returning
debugger eval statements?)



| -----Original Message-----
| From: rpg400-l-admin@midrange.com [mailto:rpg400-l-admin@midrange.com]On
| Behalf Of Scott Klement
| Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2002 1:08 AM
| To: rpg400-l@midrange.com
| Subject: Re: %EOF, %FOUND and the infamous Dow loop
|
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| On Tue, 1 Jan 2002, Douglas Handy wrote:
| >
| > It would be great to be able to give it any function or
| procedure name and have
| > it display the return value, not just certain BIFs...
| >
|
| If you did the return value for a user-written function/procedure wouldn't
| it then have to re-run the function?   If that function updates something,
| or prints something, or does communication (etc) that might not be a good
| idea.
|
| Plus, it could potentially return a different result than it did before
| you typed "eval" in the debug window.
|
| So how would you design this?  Save the return value of the function
| somewhere, and display THAT?  Where would you save it?  How long would you
| save it?  Until the function has been run again?  Or would each new
| call to the function create a separate space in memory?
|
| I agree that this would be handy, but it seems complicated :)  for BIF's
| that return a simple indicator value, it wouldnt be so hard -- but
| user-defined functions?  That seems like a whole different thing...