On Jun 19, 2013, at 9:35 AM, Sven Van Caekenberghe <[email protected]> wrote:

> 
> On 19 Jun 2013, at 08:52, Marcus Denker <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On Jun 13, 2013, at 2:48 PM, Marcus Denker <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> On Jun 13, 2013, at 2:23 PM, Sean P. DeNigris <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Why do we get [...] when Opal is not active? Why can't we keep the old
>>>> behavior?
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Soon we will switch to Opal, there are just 2 bugs left (that I know of ;-) 
>>> We where a bit distracted last week so there was no progress on those… soon.
>>> 
>> 
>> Blocks are now pretty-printed again.
>> 
>> In addition, the new bytecode->AST->source mapping is active, this should 
>> speed
>> up the Debugger a bit and should fix some long standing highlighting bugs.
>> 
>> (But due to the inherent complexity of the whole thing, it fire sure will 
>> have some
>> problems, we will see. The good thing is that  problems should be easy to 
>> debug
>> due to the explicit AST/IR based mapping)
>> 
>>      Marcus
>> 
> 
> Yes, for end users, improving the debugger based on Opal should be the next 
> step.
> 

So what we already have is a first step towards "per AST Node" 
break/watch/inspect points.
Together with the new debugger implementation and the new editor this will allow
some quite fancy debugger improvements.

        Marcus


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