Terminology: "watches" and "watchpoints"

Kuba Ober kuba at mareimbrium.org
Wed Jan 25 23:09:04 UTC 2006


On Tuesday 24 January 2006 07:19, Vladimir Prus wrote:
> Hi!
> 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.
>
> Can anybody suggest a way how those can be renamed? Any ideas are welcome.

"Data breakpoint" would be a good alternative for "watchpoint" if we want to 
reinvent the wheel, otherwise I guess watches are really commonplace.

Kuba




More information about the KDevelop-devel mailing list