From: Roger Pack <rogerpack2005@...>
Date: 2009-07-20T22:38:46+09:00
Subject: Re: remembered_evals 0.0.4 -- debugging help for eval


> I've used this same trick myself several times to be able to debug
> eval'd code. A library for it is nice. Let me make a suggestion, tho.
> You ought to name the method something other than eval, since your new
> implementation (unavoidably) changes the semantics of a
> well-established and much used builtin method. How about
> debuggable_eval? Some kind of switch to have it fall back to the plain
> vanilla eval for production mode might be nice too.

Yeah it turned out to be deftly useful at least once for me.


Currently when I want to use it for debugging, I'll add this line
require 'remembered_evals'
or comment it out when I'm *not* debugging.
For me that feels explicit enough.  Thoughts?
=r
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