---Björn Helgason wrote:
> I can not remember any case where debug has helped me nor 
> trace for that
> matter

Just wanted to say that I use debug quite a lot and find it really helpful 
although I'm probably only using a small portion of its functionality. My code 
tends to have quite a bit more multiline explicit verbs than moo, and in that 
situation I can step through lines, and in and out of calls to verbs quite 
nicely, investigating objects in the context of the code as I go, in my quest 
to find offending bug(s). 

> I love the trace and being able to step through C in the visual studio
> 
> If anything similar could be done involving J I would really love it
> 
> A beautiful application like moo is very few lines but lots 
> of operations on
> each and it would be marvelous to be able to see it in action 
> step by step

Previously I had used Code Walker in APL+Win. Code Walker lets you step 
primitive by primitive through a line of code which I agree would be a great 
addition to Debug. I imagine that implementing that for tacit code would be a 
bit tougher though.
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