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

[Nicola Mingotti]

Hi Hernan,

Speaking of representation if easy to slip talking into aesthetic 
preferences, which is not my aim. ;)

That representation made me mistake, I thought a bit about it, and here 
is what i
guess is the explanation.

----- Workspace "Print It" interactions --------------
nil.     "=>  nil "
123.   "=>  123 "
'123'. "=>  '123' "
'nil'.   "=>  'nil' "
----------------------------------------------------

This is what I expect to see also in the debugger, the programmer view 
of the object.
Instead I see kind of a simplified 'user' view, something that can in ok 
in Transcript for example.
But not in the debugger, where it is fundamental to distinguish 123 from 
'123' and nil from 'nil'.

Bye
Nicola








On 8/6/21 7:56 PM, Hernan Wilkinson wrote:
> Hi Nicola,
>  I do not see a problem... the debugger is showing the string nil and 
> the inspector too. aStringRep is referencing a string, that string is 
> 'nil' ...
>
> On Fri, Aug 6, 2021 at 1:14 PM Nicola Mingotti via Cuis-dev 
> <cuis-dev at lists.cuis.st <mailto:cuis-dev at lists.cuis.st>> wrote:
>
>
>     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 <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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