On Friday May 22 2009, Randall R Schulz wrote:
> On Friday May 22 2009, David Pollak wrote:
> > Folks,
> >
> > I did some debugging yesterday with NetBeans and IntelliJ. I was
> > unable to set breakpoints inside partial functions. I couldn't set
> > breakpoints in for comprehensions and stepping through for
> > comprehensions was not intuitive (I understand that they're sugar
> > for map/flatMap, but I expected "step" to work at the language
> > syntax level).
> >
> > So, am I missing a compiler setting or something that would make
> > one or both of these use cases work as expected? Does Eclipse have
> > a better strategy for this?
>
> I know only IDEA, but JetBrains has acknowledged debugger
> shortcomings in the Scala plug-in and says they'll be fixed. I think
> Scala is a challenge for them (either due to the language complexity
> vis. a vis. Java or due to the magnitude of the resource allocation
> they've made to support it or both), but things are moving along,
> just not as fast as Scala-programming IDEA users might like.
Incidentally, a new release of the Scala plug-in came out today.
RRS
