Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bunny!jwg1 From: jwg1@gte.com (James W. Gish) Newsgroups: comp.lang.eiffel Subject: Re: Eiffel Problems, Problems, Problems Message-ID: Date: 28 Mar 90 15:39:01 GMT References: <2983@goanna.oz.au> <5983@star.cs.vu.nl> <476@argus.mrcu> Sender: jwg1@GTE.COM Organization: GTE Laboratories Incorporated, Waltham, MA Lines: 16 In-reply-to: jwg1@gte.com's message of 27 Mar 90 22:09:28 GMT In article I write: > I also use the viewer, heavily in fact. However, I don't feel that > the inclusion of assertions makes up for the lack of > breakpoints. This assumes that you can anticipate and provide > coverage for a high percentage of potential bugs. I forgot to mention, that it also assumes that your assertions are correct. And of course, that is not always correct. So, you still need a debugger. And this brings up another point: how do you debug your assertions? One approach would be to set a breakpoint before assertion evaluation! -- Jim Gish GTE Laboratories, Inc., Waltham, MA CSNET: jgish@gte.com UUCP: ..!harvard!bunny!jwg1