Re: A few Wild and Wooly Proposals, while we're here (was Re: Feature request: userdata slice)

[Sean Conner <sean@...>]

It was thus said that the Great Daurnimator once stated:
> On 21 August 2015 at 12:18, Sean Conner <sean@conman.org> wrote:
> > 3) Allow the setting of a single breakpoint.  It's always bothered me that
> > you have to set a hook and get notified *every single time* (function by
> > function, line by line, cycle by cycle) even if you just want to stop at a
> > single place.  At least allow a breakpoint at the start of a function.  That
> > way, the code runs at full speed until the breakpoint.
> 
> Just swap the function out?
> local _oldfoo = foo; foo = function(...)
>     debug.debug() -- use whatever you want instead.
>     return _oldfoo(...)
> end

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Um ...

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Yeah.

  -spc (Honestly, that thought never crossed my mind ... )