Re:The unreasonable effectiveness of print debugging
by strikhedonia_ on Saturday April 24, 2021 @01:13PM
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Absolutely.
When people say they use 'print statements,' are they talking about log points (a debugger construct), logging or something else?
I should hope that, in most cases, they're not literally modifying their source code to achieve this. While there are a handful of scenarios in which this is necessary, on the whole it strikes me as inefficient, time-consuming and error-prone. In most environments, there are better ways to make this data observable.
When people say they use 'print statements,' are they talking about log points (a debugger construct), logging or something else?
I should hope that, in most cases, they're not literally modifying their source code to achieve this. While there are a handful of scenarios in which this is necessary, on the whole it strikes me as inefficient, time-consuming and error-prone. In most environments, there are better ways to make this data observable.