[Gretl-devel] new function debugger

Now that Chris is back from holiday, I'll mention this: I've merged his function debugger code. It's very nice. If you want to debug your user-defined function foo, you construct a script that calls it (well, this is one way of doing it). Within that script you say debug foo Then you run the script using gretlcli. [Comment on the GUI appears below.] The "debug" command should come after foo is defined but before it's called. Then when a call to foo is reached, you get an interactive prompt at which you can: - type "n" or "next" to execute the next gretl command in foo - type another gretl command (most likely a "print" to see what's happening with some variable) - type "c" or "continue" to allow foo to continue unimpeded It would be nice to enable this behaviour within the GUI console but that's not trivial. The code in gui2/console.c would have to be re-written quite substantially to allow it to work. I've made one false start on this myself (since erased from CVS) and I need to think about it more carefully before trying again. Allin.