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

[Joseph Turco]

Haha I bet I will. I'm still taking things slowly and learning still. Still trying to understand the concepts of when its appropriate to write code. Been reading more books to get a better understanding.

Regards,

Joseph Turco.

Aug 6, 2021 12:33:33 PM Nicola Mingotti <nmingotti at gmail.com>:

> 
> Oh, you will learn, it pops up quite frequently with you develop ;)
> 
> bye
> Nicola
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> 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>:
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>> 
>> 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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