Re: waving the flag

Jan Wielemaker <[email protected]> Fri, 4 Apr 2014 10:17:04 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.ai.prolog.swi
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 04/04/2014 06:50 AM, Anne Ogborn wrote:
>>> Come watch Annie run her debugger in reverse,�
>
>> What does this mean?
>
> I'm doing to demo 'retry' in the debugger- �probably with some
> drama, stepping through a bunch of stuff, then mumbling that I think
> I can skip over the next thing, and 'blowing it', then doing a retry
> to reevaluate the code.

Also cute: after finding the bug, edit it, do ^C^B to compile it, retry
and show that it works now.  It is a pity that these features are long
supported and that there are still quite experienced Prolog programmers
not knowing about this.  Let alone novices ...

	Cheers --- Jan
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