Reply to: RE>Function denotations
I'm sure many people would find printable function representations
useful. There are at least three versions of every function I've ever
written: the function I meant (fm), the function I wrote (fw), and
the function the compiler/interpreter produced/executed (fx). When
tests show that fx /= fm, some visibility into fx can be most helpful.
Even if the correspondence between fw and fx is a stretch, knowing
more about fx often points to the problem with fw.
This issue isn't really one of language definition, though. It seems
to me it's an issue for programming support environments. I don't
know of any language standard that includes requirements for
debugging tools. Any implementers willing to give this a whirl?
