Plot2kill 0.2

[Simon]

On 11/03/2011 22:52, David Nadlinger wrote:
> On 3/11/11 11:36 PM, Simon wrote:
>> On 11/03/2011 21:33, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>>> Unfortunately that makes debugging CTFE a royal pain in the ass since
>>> CTFE
>>> has absolutely zero way to send anything to stdout - […]
>> […]
>> just use:
>>
>> pragma(msg, CTFE_string);
>
> No, this doesn't quite cut it for debugging CTFE functions: While you
> can obviously use pragma(msg, …) to write the *result* of a function
> invoked via CTFE to standard output, this doesn't help you if you want
> to debug the stuff going on *in* that function itself, for example to
> track down one of the numerous CTFE bugs.
>
> David
>
>
> P.S.: As a last resort to get something printed during CTFE evaluation,
> it is possible to use »assert(false, message)« – DMD prints the
> (correctly evaluated) message as part of the compiler error message.
> Obviously, this screws up compilation though.

Never had a problem myself; and I've used some really hairy string 
mixins to create runtime & CTFE functions.
Worse case, when composing functions is to print out the result and copy 
into a file and then debug as normal.

It's neither elegant or convenient, but it works.

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