From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2008-04-30T01:19:30+09:00
Subject: Re: How to debug Ruby Programs

Eivind Eklund wrote:
> I find the invariant adding and puts variants to flow over into each
> other a bit in practice; I'll often add extra invariants when doing
> debugging, and a bunch of output (puts statatements), and then I use
> "cvs diff" to find and eliminate the puts statements while committing
> the new invariant checks.

You can put debug code (invariant checks, and puts), flush with the left 
margin (unindented). Then these lines can be grepped for with ^\w, more 
or less. They also stand out when you scan the code visually.

This is enough of a reason to choose ruby over python, IMO.

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