debug method inconsistently implemented

While debugging code I usually use the debug method to print information 
I need during debugging.

2.debug(\interestingNumber)

2.class.debug(\theclass)

When I wanted to know the class of a object I realized that some objects 
overload Object:debug which lead to a situation where no message is printed.

In my case its the View class.

View().class.debug(\theclass)

Unfortunately unlike most other classes View:*debug does takes first a 
level argument and than the message.

When I looked at the source code I saw that a few other classes either 
overload debug with a method or with a variable.

Some of these overloaded functions make sense like RawArray:debug in 
other cases they break expected behaviour.

I think this is a problematic situation and I would suggest the few 
spots where debug got overloaded (for a different ) are given a 
different name so that the debugging facilitated by Object is not 
disturbed by other implementations.

Is this a valid issue to be put onto github?



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