On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 05:27:11PM +0200, Konrad Hinsen wrote:
My Haskell experiments have reached a size in which debugging tools would be more than welcome, so I looked around, and was very disappointed. I tried Hood, which is a pain to use (lots of editing of the code required), I looked at Buddha but didn't want to downgrade to GHC 5 for trying it (nor is my code Haskell 98, because of multi-parameter classes), and all that seems left to try is Hat, whose Web site I can't reach at the moment.
So what are you Haskell programmers using for debugging in real life?
I mostly just use Debug.Trace, which is basically like the printf method of debugging in C/C++ (which is what I usually use in those languages). It's not very elegant, but generally gets the job done. The other debugging tool (in a sense) I use is ghc's profiling, which I find helpful for figuring out scaling problems. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/