Is there plan for Source Debuger?

[Paul de Mast]

Rinus wrote:

> It would be great to have a nice debugger.
> The main problem is that so many transformations take place in the 
> Clean compiler that the correspondence between source code and final 
> program is hard to explain to the ignorence user.

For debugging (and other purposes) an interpreter integrated in the 
Clean environment would also be satisfying.

Although the clean compiler is fast there is still a large difference 
between waiting 20 sec. for every testing of a function or see the 
result at once. 

Also for teaching purpose I think an integrated interpreter is 
indispensable.  For a follow-up course in fp I switched from an 
interpreter environment to Clean and the one complain students have 
is the lack of an interpreter. Normally if a students wants quickly to 
see what a function does (in the library or in a given program) they 
ask in the interpreter the type an try a few function calls. They 
could also take a look at the definition, but seeing is believing 
(especially for students who are novice fp programmers.)

So I really hope in the future we can expect an interpreter in Clean 
environment.

Paul de Mast