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Edebug (was: Opaque objects and Emacs documentation)
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Stefan Monnier |
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Edebug (was: Opaque objects and Emacs documentation) |
Date: |
Tue, 21 Jul 2020 18:12:18 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
> Edebug is difficult. So far I have no idea why that is: perhaps because of
> the coding style, but more likely just due to the problem domain.
I think Edebug deserves a fair bit of work, indeed.
Most importantly in the form of comments to describe the
data-structures and control-flow.
Without this info it's hard to decide whether the actual code could be
improved much, tho.
IIUC the debug-specs are similar to PEGs, so maybe they'd benefit from
being described in these terms.
>> When gaps are found in that interface, people will use the internal
>> details to craft a workaround whether the documentation is there or
>> not. (I have done this at least once in the past.)
Emacs is built on the idea that allowing the user to do that is
a good idea. IOW, we embrace this "problem" as a feature.
But that doesn't mean that we're bound to preserve compatibility with
such hacks.
Stefan
- Re: Opaque objects and Emacs documentation, (continued)
- Re: Opaque objects and Emacs documentation, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/07/21
- Re: Opaque objects and Emacs documentation, Dmitry Gutov, 2020/07/21
- Re: Opaque objects and Emacs documentation, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/07/21
- Re: Opaque objects and Emacs documentation, Dmitry Gutov, 2020/07/21
- Re: Opaque objects and Emacs documentation, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/07/22
- Re: Opaque objects and Emacs documentation, Dmitry Gutov, 2020/07/22
- Re: Opaque objects and Emacs documentation, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/07/22
- Re: Opaque objects and Emacs documentation, Dmitry Gutov, 2020/07/22
- Re: Opaque objects and Emacs documentation, Alan Mackenzie, 2020/07/21
- Re: Opaque objects and Emacs documentation, Dmitry Gutov, 2020/07/21
- Edebug (was: Opaque objects and Emacs documentation),
Stefan Monnier <=
- Re: Opaque objects and Emacs documentation, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/07/22
- Re: Opaque objects and Emacs documentation, Dmitry Gutov, 2020/07/22
- Re: Opaque objects and Emacs documentation, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/07/22
- Re: Opaque objects and Emacs documentation, Dmitry Gutov, 2020/07/22
- Re: Opaque objects and Emacs documentation, Richard Stallman, 2020/07/23
- Re: Opaque objects and Emacs documentation, Dmitry Gutov, 2020/07/23
- Re: Opaque objects and Emacs documentation, João Távora, 2020/07/22
- Re: Opaque objects and Emacs documentation, Dmitry Gutov, 2020/07/17
- Re: Opaque objects and Emacs documentation, Dmitry Gutov, 2020/07/17
- Re: Opaque objects and Emacs documentation, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/07/17