OpenEuphoria

Re: New trace window feature

• Posted by Vincent <darkvincentdude at yahoo.com> Jan 10, 2006
• 501 views

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