At 08:48 AM 8/2/00 -0400, Joshua N Pritikin wrote:
>On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 09:42:16PM +0900, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 08:39:05AM -0400, Joshua N Pritikin wrote:
> > > Ah! PI is a great idea. Why not dump as much intelligence as possible
> > > into PI?
> >
> > Because it'll make using a source level debugger even more hell
> > that it is now.
>
>If PI does its job then you won't need to use a source level debugger
>very often. As seen from here, that's an *advantage*.
No doubt. Using a source debugger on something as complex as a language
interpreter's going to be unpleasant no matter what we do, so the less we
have to the better.
Dan
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