[georgeorwell]

All you need to do is hoist the conditionals out of the ?: if you have a bug and you want to inspect them, either with printf or a debugger. Everything else is available before the statement.

Personally I don't use debuggers except to get a backtrace from a core dump once in a while. I use various forms of automated testing and logging to stderr/stdout. They just aren't very useful with concurrency bugs.

[to3m]

The "all you need to do" bit is exactly the way this has wasted my time. I'm not saying that doing it is particularly complicated, nor that any individual occurrence is especially onerous, and in fact it usually isn't (though you do lose your state, and that's annoying) - but the time taken mounts up!

Ah well. I've said my piece. If your experience hasn't convinced you, like mine convinced me, then I imagine yours was a lot more fun ;)