Simon Marlow wrote:
Claus Reinke wrote:
Then how about my suggestion for selectively adding lexical scope to breakpoints? I'd like to be able to say
:break
{names} and have GHCi make the necessary changes to keep {names} available for inspection when it hits that breakpoint.
The only easy way to do that is to recompile the module that contains the breakpoint. To do it without recompiling is about as hard as doing what I suggested above, because it involves a similar mechanism (being able to selectively retain the values of free variables).
sure, but GHCi recompiling the module maybe takes less than a second, whereas going and modifying the source-code in an editor takes orders of magnitude more time! Is there something fundamentally wrong with recompiling an interpreted module? -Isaac