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by NDizzle 1882 days ago
Yep. You can blow peoples minds in ANY LANGUAGE by using print debugging sometimes. It's amazing, but true. At least it's been that way for the ~25 years I've been doing it.

You think you're here? Let's put a few print statements in there to confirm your execution path is actually what you think it is, and those values are what you expect them to be.
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OJFord 1882 days ago
I use prints a lot too, but you must admit:

> You think you're here? Let's put a few print statements in there to confirm your execution path is actually what you think it is, and those values are what you expect them to be.

You could just put a breakpoint there, look at as many values as you want, and not have to re-run it if you think of another.

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ysavir 1882 days ago
True, but I don't want to have to exit out of 5 breakpoints each time I run through the scenario. I just want to run it with the print output logging the procession and key variables as a summary of relevant info.

To me that's the key difference. If I know what I'm looking for, prints are great. If I don't know what I'm looking for, breakpoints are a must.

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