Do any debuggers support "edit and continue?"

Joel Koltner zapwireDASHgroups at yahoo.com
Wed May 12 18:07:37 EDT 2010


"John Nagle" <nagle at animats.com> wrote in message 
news:4beb15c5$0$1634$742ec2ed at news.sonic.net...
>    Having actually used LISP systems with "edit and continue", it's a good
> thing that Python doesn't have it.  It encourages a "patch" mentality, and
> the resulting code is usually disappointing.

Hey, a lot of people would argue that Python's lack of strong typing and 
data/member protection (from one class to another) encourages sloppy 
programming too. :-)  (Some people even figure that automatic garbage 
collection does so!)

>    What the original poster seems to need is a global analysis
> tool that insures that all names used are defined.  Like "pylint".

Sounds intriguing... I'll check it out; thanks!

---Joel




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