Re: Kind of a lookfor function

[David Bateman]

> This seems like a rather difficult method of debugging (at least for
> someone who has never used gdb before).  Might it be feasible to make the 
> breakpoint setting a function so that lay-users could do it?  I'm thinking 
> something along the lines of:
>
> x = stuff(y);
> breakpoint
> z = blah(x);
>
> So that I could look at x (and the current space) in place.


You're mistaking debugging an oct-file written in C++, etc with 
debugging an octave script. If the user is going to write oct-files in a 
compiled language then I assume they are capable using standard 
debugging tools like gdb...

As for the breakpoint idea above, have you looked at the "keyboard" command?

Regards
David

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