Re: What are your top desired improvements in Xcode ?
Re: What are your top desired improvements in Xcode ?
- Subject: Re: What are your top desired improvements in Xcode ?
- From: Chris Hanson <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 00:36:29 -0800
On Feb 19, 2007, at 7:56 PM, Michael Latta wrote: A description method should not change the state of the object, so it should not matter when it is called.
There are plenty of designs where just examining state is enough to change it. You really do need to be able to manage this at a fine granularity while debugging some software.
For example, you may be debugging within some code that holds a lock — a lock that your description method would need to acquire in order to actually produce a description. The debugger can't necessarily know that -description is unsafe to send at that point.
Another case would be to be stopped in the middle of a message send, or in the middle of a state update that needs to complete before you'll have valid state to show.
-- Chris
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