[Cuis-dev] I think i found a bug in the debugger

[Nicola Mingotti]

Oh, you will learn, it pops up quite frequently with you develop ;)

bye
Nicola




On 8/6/21 6:21 PM, Joseph Turco wrote:
> As a beginner, I haven't fully understood the debugger yet, so 
> thankfully I haven't run into this issue. Thanks for letting us know 
> Nicola. Grazie amico.
>
> Joseph Turco
>
> Aug 6, 2021 12:14:41 PM Nicola Mingotti via Cuis-dev 
> <cuis-dev at lists.cuis.st>:
>
>
>     Hi guys,
>
>     I hit a stupid bug today ... to find it was nasty, i think because
>     the debugger does not show what (at least I) would expect.
>
>     Please see the attached picture here:
>     https://pasteboard.co/KeEwgAy.png
>
>     If you look at the debugger bottom right pane you think
>     that 'aStringRepr' is nil, right? Well, it is not so,
>     If you inspect it, see inspector in the middle of the screen,
>     you see it actually is 'nil', that is a String containing a 3
>     letter value.
>
>     This happens also for numbers, if they are inside Strings the debugger
>     does not show eg: '123', but 123. That is some kind of "print
>     representation".
>
>     I think this is very much undesirable and an unexpected behavior,
>     at least for a beginner;)
>
>     bye
>     Nicola
>
>
>
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