Re: Ok sorry, it is just a book gives no feedback.

[Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam (Larry Kilgallen)]

In article <937jk6$s6l$1@nnrp1.deja.com>, Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com> writes:
> In article <dxC7xviP+UiB@eisner.decus.org>,
>   Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam (Larry Kilgallen) wrote:
>> Is it the case that implementations are forbidden to allow
>> debugger breakpoints in code controlled by pragma Pure ?
> 
> Of course not, but that is entirely irrelevant to the (very
> important) point that Randy was making!
> 
> For example, you cannot add a Put_Line in a pure function,
> and that is often very annoying.

I supposed it might be annoying to some people, but I detest
that style of debugging.  I much prefer to place a breakpoint
(even a conditional breakpoint) that will examine the data in
question rather than change the source.  Sometimes setting up
that breakpoint may take an elaborate command procedure in order
to get it on precisely the 125th iteration that has a non-negative
parameter, but to me it is better than altering the source.

And now I have learned that it is more compatible with "Pure" :-)