Chris Hecker writes:

> do people find the backtracking thing useful in everyday debugging?

I prefer the toplevel to the debugger in everyday work.  However, the
backtracking debugger is extremely useful for finding the cause for
exceptional conditions that occur in long running programs for
specific inputs.

Not having to figure out a conditional break point that will stop the
program a the right time ist very convienent.  Just run the program to
the `failwith "panic: how in the world did I get here?"'  and step
back from there ...
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