As someone casually observing Elm development, I'm very surprised by this; does Elm really make your life so easy you've never needed to set breakpoints and step through your code? It's hard for me to imagine writing a large-scale app without having to do that from time to time.
On Saturday, October 22, 2016 at 6:49:52 AM UTC-5, John Orford wrote: > > It never occurred to me to debug the generated JS... can you sketch out > your use case a bit more? > > On Sat, 22 Oct 2016 at 11:19 Robin Heggelund Hansen <skinn...@gmail.com > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> While I spend a lot less time debugging in Elm than in JS, sometimes it's >> useful to debug the generated Javascript. >> >> This would be greatly simplified, if it was possible to add a `debugger;` >> statement to the code. >> >> What do people think of a new function added to the Debug module of >> elm-lang/core, called breakpoint. It would work like the identity function, >> but also include the `debugger;` statement, causing a breakpoint to happen >> when the browsers dev-tools are open. >> >> used like: >> >> ``` >> faultyFunction a b = >> let >> _ = Debug.breakpoint () >> in >> a + b >> ``` >> >> Granted, this would cause a breakpoint to happen in the actual >> Debug.breakpoint function, but since that function is very small, stepping >> out of it is no big deal. The only other option I can think of is compiler >> support, but I'm unsure how hard this would be to include. >> >> Opinions? >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Elm Discuss" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to elm-discuss...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Elm Discuss" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to elm-discuss+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
