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

[Joseph Turco]

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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