Re: Dubiousness of the debug library

[Coda Highland <chighland@...>]

On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 3:43 PM, Brigham Toskin <brighamtoskin@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jul 8, 2015, at 10:40 PM, Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@gmail.com> wrote:
>> So why are we still squeamish about it?
>
> On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 7:55 AM, Tim Hill <drtimhill@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I confess I generally avoid it, and raise an eyebrow when people here
>> recommend it’s use in production code. If some of the functions in the
>> library are needed for day-to-day Lua functionality, then to my mind they
>> don’t really belong in the debug library.
>
>
> This is mostly not really a debug library anymore, it seems like. A better
> name is probably the "deep introspection" library. But they can't really
> change the name because that will break extant code.
>
> --
> Brigham Toskin

It's still impolite to use it in library code, and that's where it's
often most useful.

/s/ Adam