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From: Stephen Leake <stephen.a.leake.1@gsfc.nasa.gov>
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Subject: Re: Ok sorry, it is just a book gives no feedback.
Date: 08 Jan 2001 10:01:44 -0500
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Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam (Larry Kilgallen) writes:

> In article <937jk6$s6l$1@nnrp1.deja.com>, Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com> writes:
> ><snip> 
> > 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.  

Until I started writing programs for Win95, I agreed with Ted. But
even the GNAT debugger can't properly handle breakpoints in a window
procedure under Win95 (WinNT is only a little better). So now I'm used
to Text_IO.Put_Line for debugging. 

I do require my unit tests to not rely on modified units; I add child
packages instead.

Yet another reason to switch to Linux, but there are just so many fun
games that don't run there :).

-- 
-- Stephe