WAT the WTF do programmers use as debug strings?

http://zachholman.com/posts/debug-strings/

by hodgesmr • 13 years ago

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bandy2• 13 years ago

Really? I give location and context and the Why of the message. I make sure that every message is unique (unlike the code I changed in a certain once-prominent US firm's three-letter operating system) as well. I clearly know nothing and shouldn't be in the profession.

caruana• 13 years ago

really? i think you might be mistaking exception logging for quick debug lines, like when a certain line isn't being hit for some reason and you just want to quickly know if it does hit. you would clearly delete these quick messages before checking in. No need to get so dramatic ...

bandy2• 13 years ago

Really. Identical error and debugging messages that might as well have all said "Foo!" across a 300,000+ LOC subsystem.

NoodleIncident• 13 years ago

herp, derp, flurp, and slurp are immensely useful words for one-off variables in an interactive interpreter.

RossM• 13 years ago

In PHP I tend to do something like:

    dd(__DIR__.'/'.__FILE__.':'.__LINE__);

Which prints out the current script and line, and then stops execution (where dd is var_dump+exit).

claudiowilson• 13 years ago

I use the ever eloquent, "yolo".

forgottenpass• 13 years ago

    "\x1B[1;36;40m" "\n" "\x1B[0;37;40m"

I keep a file sitting around with versions for different colors/languages.

splawn• 13 years ago

Thank you for this idea! My worst days will now be in color from now on. :)

hiharryhere• 13 years ago

Any chance you could chuck those on a gist? Sounds mighty handy!

jweather• 13 years ago

"this should never happen" and/or "how did you get here?"

WAT the WTF do programmers use as debug strings?

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