Re: Eye for bugs

From	"Michael F. Stemper" <michael.stemper@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.javascript
Subject	Re: Eye for bugs
Date	2014-01-10 18:17 -0600
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<laq2if$928$2@dont-email.me> (permalink)
References	<06555351-b90c-4a99-8e22-169eebbc1522@googlegroups.com> <lapl2a$m9k$1@dont-email.me> <100120142309312235%timstreater@greenbee.net>

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On 01/10/2014 05:09 PM, Tim Streater wrote:
> In article <lapl2a$m9k$1@dont-email.me>, Michael F. Stemper
> <michael.stemper@gmail.com> wrote:

>> Then, you can scatter calls to "trace" throughout your script, just as
>> you would calls to "alert". The difference is that you don't need to
>> acknowledge each individual one, and you have a transcript of the
>> entire program's execution:
>>
>>     trace( "Changing color to: " + line_col );
>>     trace( "Entering fuction foobar" );
>>     trace( "Finished with foobar" );
>>     trace( "Drawing from (" + x1 + ", " + y1 + ") to (" + x2 + ", " +
>> y2 ")" );
>>     trace( "snarf is currently: " + snarf );
>>
>> and so on.
>
> why not just use console.info() ?? You get all this for free.

I never heard of it before today. Now that I know about it, it's what
I'll use in the future.

-- 
Michael F. Stemper
Indians scattered on dawn's highway bleeding;
Ghosts crowd the young child's fragile eggshell mind.

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Eye for bugs jonas.thornvall@gmail.com - 2014-01-06 01:56 -0800
  Re: Eye for bugs jonas.thornvall@gmail.com - 2014-01-08 01:48 -0800
    Re: Eye for bugs jonas.thornvall@gmail.com - 2014-01-10 06:48 -0800
      Re: Eye for bugs Christoph Michael Becker <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2014-01-10 16:20 +0100
  Re: Eye for bugs "Michael F. Stemper" <michael.stemper@gmail.com> - 2014-01-10 14:26 -0600
    Re: Eye for bugs Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-01-10 22:12 +0100
      Re: Eye for bugs "Michael F. Stemper" <michael.stemper@gmail.com> - 2014-01-10 18:15 -0600
        Re: Eye for bugs Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-01-11 15:53 +0100
    Re: Eye for bugs Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-01-10 23:09 +0000
      Re: Eye for bugs "Michael F. Stemper" <michael.stemper@gmail.com> - 2014-01-10 18:17 -0600

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