13 Jan
2006
13 Jan
'06
4:18 p.m.
On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 03:48:29PM +0000, Jonathon McKitrick wrote:
But doesn't that require an exception or an error to break into the debugger? If you are trying to track down a logic error, what approach can you use?
Liberal ASSERT forms will serve to drop you into the debugger when suspicious things happen. If the run-time cost is problematic for release they can be conditionally killed by simply shadowing ASSERT in your package.
http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/m_assert.htm
Also, TRACE is your friend.
-bcd
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