Re: Modifying the arguments to a function is a bad idea

Mark McIntyre wrote:
jacob navia wrote:

After that assignment it is impossible to go to the first line of the
function and restart it, since the original value of a is lost.

I'm not sure I follow. You can't "go to the start" of a function except by calling it again. In which case you can reset the parameter to whatever you want. If you mean "rewind the debugger and rerun the function", surely thats a QOI issue for the debugger- it should store the complete state so it can rewind properly.


Imagine. At each function (sionce the debugger doesn't know if it
will crash) the debugger should stop the program, save the state
(that can be huge) and then go on in case the function crashes
and the user wants to go back!

[snip]


By the way, your mails are overly long. I'm a manager, I can't be bothered to read more than the executive summary and I take the view that if you can't summarise in a side of A4, you don't know what you're talking about.

It shows that you feel that you are "a manager". It shows. You need
to be spoon feed :-)


I will provide an "executive summary" for the posts that I want you to
read. Please disregard the others.

Thanks
.

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