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I still do this all the time with Java. Especially because the application is rather slow to start or setup whatever I want to debug. It can also influence how you structure the code. In my opinion to the better.

If you mutate state all over a method it is harder to "restart" the method after changing it. Instead I tend to either not mutate state and return the result or work with local variables and just change the object at the very end of the method.

Or might start to more separate a lock/transaction from what is processed within because when "restarting" the method you don't want to relock it.