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. Tamas