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Can’t you do the same thing by dropping a browser() into a function you are applying to each element in a list?

• civilized 4y ago
  It's not as convenient because now you have to rerun the code and get in and out of a debugging environment (which can be slow). I think FP is good for more concisely expressing simple stuff that's unlikely to break. Don't really believe in using it as a complete replacement for loops.
  • p10_user 4y ago
    How about a conditional breakpoint? Though this doesn’t solve the “issue” of rerunning through the whole list. Or - once you’ve found what element in your list is causing the issue- extract it and feed it to your function with your debugger on. Admittedly I have often had a more challenging time fixing FP code than if I had used a for loop. This might be because I am not as familiar/comfortable with FP than procedural flow. There has to be a for loop eventually. But crawling through a for loop within a procedure can also be painful if there are many different case scenarios. You could counter that good code wouldn’t suffer such a problem, but if the code was good it might not have been broken!