Terminology: "watches" and "watchpoints"

Kuba Ober kuba at mareimbrium.org
Tue Jan 24 15:33:04 UTC 2006


> The debugger now uses "watches" to refer to expressions that are
> recalculated on every step, and "watchpoints" to refer to breakpoints on
> data write/read. The use of "watch" in both words seems pretty confusing to
> me, as it implies close relation, while there's none. Recently, I've run
> KDevelop in Russian locale, and after translation the terms become even
> more confusing.

I believe those English terms are widely used. Better not reinvent the wheel.

As far as translations go, literal translation makes little sense here. Those 
terms need to have a descriptive translation in absence of established 
specialized terms in given lanuage.

Kuba




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