Re: debug breakpoint commands want line numbers as strings!!

[John W. Eaton]

On 22-May-2007, David Bateman wrote:

| David Bateman wrote:
| > Is there any reason why the debug commands require that the line numbers
| > for breakpoints are set as strings? It seems that it makes more sense
| > that these are integers or matrices instead. It also means that reseting
| > all breakpoints in a function can't be written as
| > 
| > dbclear ("foo", dbstatus ("foo"))
| > 
| > which would make a lot of sense to me.. what about the attached patch?
| > The above code then works, and it even keeps backward compatibility.
| > 
| > D.
| 
| 
| If this patch is accepted, then you might also consider the attached
| patch to debug.txi, that gives a bit of additional documentation and
| explanation of the uses and limitations of the debugging functionality
| of Octave. However, as the version of this documentation patch makes the
| assumption that the previous patch is applied, it shouldn't be
| considered separately..

I applied it.

Thanks,

jwe