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GeneralNothing to do with computers, or development, but ... the headline just cracks me up Pin
OriginalGriff13-Dec-19 11:37
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Generalnow this is a change Pin
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GeneralARGHHH! But it worked when it was broken Pin
honey the codewitch13-Dec-19 4:58
mvahoney the codewitch13-Dec-19 4:58 
Now I'm a little scared. Because code that I knew was broken is working but when I "fixed" it the whole thing falls on its face.

The problem is, given a bit of code, find all variables declared within the scope of that code.

Prior, i was just getting all the variables in the routine. I knew it was wrong, but i hadn't worked out the problem yet.

Now I have, so I went back to update the code. As soon as I put it in Slang's patcher stops finding some of my variables!

So I test the variable tracer some more. It works as good as I could have hoped.

Which means somewhere, something else doesn't. And I barely know where to begin to look because of how this works.

Worse, currently my repro requires running a very particular bit of slang code as part of my lexer generator - "Rolex"'s operation, which means i had to pull that out and duplicate it in a scratch binary to debug, but it's still not very narrowed down. I can't quite find the bit where i need to test in the debugger.

The trouble is visitors are nasty when things go wrong. The visitor works right, it's the code that's firing on visit that's bad somewhere, and that happens inside a visit so the call stack is a nightmare.

And it's friday the 13th. Just my day. Maybe I should stay off the computer. Laugh | :laugh:

Building stuff like this is rough.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.

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