On 17/04/2020 17:18, dcwhat...@gmail.com wrote:
Maybe it isn't true for all IDE's or all languages. (I know SOMEONE will interject here, to argue for the sake of arguing). But when I worked with Groovy in Intellij about 5 years ago, there were times when the IDE was confused, during a debugging sessions. I don't remember the exact details, but that anomaly happened only with DEFed variables ; it didn't happen when the data type was specified.
This is a general problem for IDEs, and type information isn't always helpful. The number of times I have had to add useless bits of code to cast something to (uint8_t *) because I want to see the bytes and the IDE will not give up on trying to interpret them for me.
And people wonder why I stick to gdb when at all possible :-) -- Rhodri James *-* Kynesim Ltd -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
