Dear all,
Yesterday I darcs-got the GHC HEAD to play with the debugger and I
have the following impressions/bug/suggestions:
* I would like to know whether I am debugging mode (i.e. in a
breakpoint) or not. For example
> *Main> -- normal prompt
and, for example,
> *Main:[1] > -- in breakpoint 1
now, if I evaluate expression "e" via "seq e ()" and it happens to
trigger breakpoint 2, I would like to see something like
> *Main:[1]:[2] >
or some better notation, but you get my point.
* The notation for printing a list is non-Haskell, consider the
following evaluated head but unevaluated tail:
> *Main> :print xs
> xs = [True | (_t2::[Bool])]
I would have expected "True : (_t2::[Bool])"
* Consider the following code:
> mymap f [] = []
> mymap f (x:xs) = f x:mymap f xs
>
> main = mapM_ putStrLn $ mymap ('a':) ["hello","bye"]
First, I set a breakpoint on line two. When I invoke "main", the
breakpoint is triggered two times before "main" is done evaluating.
Afterwards, If I type "main" at the ghci prompt again, the breakpoint
is not triggered anymore! Even though ":show breaks" lists it.
* Again considering the code above, if I break at line 2:
> Stopped at FreeVar2.hs:2:17-19
> x :: GHC.Base.Unknown
> f :: t -> a
> xs :: [GHC.Base.Unknown]
Now I type "f" and the following message appears:
> *** Exception: No match in record selector Var.tcTyVarDetails
* I was wondering whether it would be nice to have a "break" function/
primitive, so that you can write:
> mymap f [] = []
> mymap f (x:xs) = (break (f x):mymap f xs)
with "break" having type "a -> a" and inserting a breakpoint around
the argument expression. It is handy to not have to recalculate
lines. However I am not so sure anymore. Using line numbers is not as
bad as I thought.
The debugger is a nice addition to GHC, and I look forward to the
debugger being integrated into the Emacs Haskell mode!
Cheers,
Alexey
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