So it sounds like what you need at the moment is more of a Haskell pretty printer than a debugger. :) IDEs, like Visual Studio, can be very helpful when writing code in a language you don't really know, I've noticed this writing VBA. I wish Visual Haskell were ready for real use. -- Lennart On Sep 6, 2006, at 08:13 , Tamas K Papp wrote:
On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 06:33:32AM -0400, Lennart Augustsson wrote:
I've also used Visual Studio, and I wouldn't mind having something like that for Haskell. But I have to agree with Jon, I think the best way of debugging is to understand your code. I think people who come from imperative programming come with a mind set that you understand your code by stepping through it in the debugger. But I find this paradigm much less useful for functional code.
At this point, I need debugging not because I don't understand my code, but because I don't understand Haskell ;-) Most of the mistakes I make are related to indentation, precedence (need to remember that function application binds tightly). The compiler and the type system catches some mistakes, but a few remain.
Thanks for the suggestions.
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