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Re: Use of NSLog() for debugging

Subject: Re: Use of NSLog() for debugging
From: Glen Simmons <email@hidden>
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 12:24:21 -0500

Clark, what you haven't stumbled across, is that you can type "po myObject" in the console to find out the contents of these objects. The reason you haven't stumbled across this is because it isn't documented anywhere. Apparently, it's folklore that has to be handed down.

<rant>
What I don't understand is, if "po myObject" is what I'm gonna do the majority of the time, why isn't this part of the GUI? A disclosure triangle that only shows an isa variable is about as useful as an extra butt-cheek. No offense to the Next vets / command line gurus, but I don't like typing "po myObject". I like the debugger in CodeWarrior, Visual Studio, insert-a-modern-IDE-here. The debugger is my number one complaint about PB.
</rant>

Glen

On Monday, July 23, 2001, at 12:05 PM, Clark S. Cox III wrote:

On Friday, July 20, 2001, at 08:08 , Art Isbell wrote:

Many postings to this mailing list discuss using NSLog() for debugging. I'd like to encourage you to learn to use the debugger, not NSLog() because

Using NSLog() for debugging does not preclude the use of gdb. Often, there is no way to view the more complex types used in Cocoa. For example,
I often insert NSLog() statements just before gdb breakpoints so that I can see the value(s) held in an NSString, NSNumber, NSArray, etc.

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