Re: [patch] Add an evaluation function hook to Python breakpoints.

Pedro Alves
2010-12-14T17:46:09Z

On Monday 13 December 2010 20:45:38, Doug Evans wrote:
> Collecting data in the "evaluate" function feels too hacky for
> something we explicitly tell users is the published way to do this
> kind of thing.

FWIW, I think that's a common idiom, and I'm cool with it.
I recently saw a presentation of a proprietary (quite featureful)
debugger where the equivalent callback was shown as a means of collecting
data as well ("it just always returns FALSE, thus never causes a stop",
or some such).

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Pedro Alves