Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!rutgers!iuvax!pur-ee!a.cs.uiuc.edu!p.cs.uiuc.edu!gillies From: gillies@p.cs.uiuc.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: Please describe LSC 3.0 Message-ID: <104700044@p.cs.uiuc.edu> Date: 6 Jul 88 03:50:00 GMT References: <3630@omepd> Lines: 19 Nf-ID: #R:omepd:3630:p.cs.uiuc.edu:104700044:000:923 Nf-From: p.cs.uiuc.edu!gillies Jul 5 22:50:00 1988 There's one feature I'd really like to see in the LSC 3.0 debugger: If you are hand-generating test cases for your program, it helps a lot if the debugger has the ability to create & assign to data structures. For instance, I have a record "DataRec" and I want to create an instance, assign some values to it, and then invoke a procedure with the record as one of the arguments. The debugger (hopefully) supports this with a nice primitive like "> z = Make(DataRec)". Ideally, it supports doing this from a script (regression testing). MIT's CLU language debugger could do this for the programmer/tester (everything but scripting). Does LSC 3.0 have this ability? If not, could you (Rich) suggest it for inclusion in a future release? Don Gillies, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Illinois 1304 W. Springfield, Urbana, Ill 61801 ARPA: gillies@cs.uiuc.edu UUCP: {uunet,ihnp4,harvard}!uiucdcs!gillies