Terminology: "watches" and "watchpoints"

[Vladimir Prus]

On Tuesday 24 January 2006 17:31, Kuba Ober wrote:
> > 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.

"Watch" is already a wheel reinvention -- in gdb that's called "display". The 
same term is used in DDD. 

- Volodya