Re: What do people use Venkman for?

> >
> > Secondly, doesn't having to step through all the variable declarations
> > essentially make Venkman useless for large scripts?  Someone might have
to
> > step through 50 variable declarations interspersed in 1,000 lines of
code
> > just to get to the start of the script?
>
> Breakpoints are your friend.
> Use them to stop at the place you're interested in.
>

How does setting a breakpoint help?  If someone were to set a breakpoint on
the first line of code, Venkman would stop there, and then the person would
still have to traverse 50 variable declarations in 1,000 lines of code
before getting to the start of execution.  How does setting a breakpoint
allow you to skip having to step through all the variable declarations? In
other words, if you set a breakpoint at line 1, how does Venkman know
whether you want to follow it as it hunts for all the variable declarations,
or you want to skip past all that and start with execution at line 1?