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Re: Use of NSLog() for debugging

Subject: Re: Use of NSLog() for debugging
From: "Clark S. Cox III" <email@hidden>
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 13:05:07 -0400

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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Clark S. Cox, III
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