1. New trace window feature
Hi Rob & group,
Please consider this for the nice to have list:
When querying a sequence variable with the ? char, how about the response
showing the length and nesting level of the displayed sequence?
While we can add another line of source just above the traced point
to set a junk variable equal to the length, we would have to edit
the source...this can be tedious for many variables.
Possibly in pretty_print() too?
Regards,
Alan
2. Re: New trace window feature
Alan Oxley wrote:
> Hi Rob & group,
> Please consider this for the nice to have list:
> When querying a sequence variable with the ? char, how about the response
> showing the length and nesting level of the displayed sequence?
>
> While we can add another line of source just above the traced point
> to set a junk variable equal to the length, we would have to edit
> the source...this can be tedious for many variables.
>
> Possibly in pretty_print() too?
Yes, in trace, I've often wondered what the length of a
long sequence is. I'll consider it. It might
clutter the display though.
Thanks,
Rob Craig
Rapid Deployment Software
http://www.RapidEuphoria.com
3. Re: New trace window feature
- Posted by Pete Lomax <petelomax at blueyonder.co.uk>
Jan 09, 2006
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Last edited Jan 10, 2006
On Mon, 09 Jan 2006 04:17:04 -0800, Alan Oxley
<guest at RapidEuphoria.com> wrote:
>Hi Rob & group,
>Please consider this for the nice to have list:
>When querying a sequence variable with the ? char, how about the response
>showing the length and nesting level of the displayed sequence?
One way to solve the length part is to allow ? length(s) - and at
the same time one of my top wishes for the debug window, ? s[357].
Regards,
Pete
PS Sure, ?s[i] would be handy no doubt, but ?i followed by ?s[357],
- if needbe, keep it simple.
4. Re: New trace window feature
Robert Craig wrote:
>
> Alan Oxley wrote:
> > Hi Rob & group,
> > Please consider this for the nice to have list:
> > When querying a sequence variable with the ? char, how about the response
> > showing the length and nesting level of the displayed sequence?
> >
> > While we can add another line of source just above the traced point
> > to set a junk variable equal to the length, we would have to edit
> > the source...this can be tedious for many variables.
> >
> > Possibly in pretty_print() too?
>
> Yes, in trace, I've often wondered what the length of a
> long sequence is. I'll consider it. It might
> clutter the display though.
>
> Thanks,
> Rob Craig
> Rapid Deployment Software
> <a href="http://www.RapidEuphoria.com">http://www.RapidEuphoria.com</a>
What you can do is introduce a "$" trace command, that prompts for the name of a
sequence variable. It could be equivelent to "length(seqvar)". If the user tries
to use it on atoms and integers, have it issue a warning message on the command
line.
Regards,
Vincent
5. Re: New trace window feature
- Posted by George Walters <gwalters at sc.rr.com>
Jan 13, 2006
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Last edited Jan 14, 2006
While we're on the trace subject I would like to be able to display an element
within a sequence. If you have very long sequences it would be nice to ask
to display bigsequence[25] for example.
