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From: gillies@p.cs.uiuc.edu
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Subject: Re: Please describe LSC 3.0
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Date: 6 Jul 88 03:50:00 GMT
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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      
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