[E-Lang] Debugging E programs

[Jonathan A Rees]

[At Mark M's request I am re-sending to e-lang some questions that I
had sent to him and Mark S privately.  To promote better threading I'm
sending them separately instead of batched as I had originally done.]

What is the current position on debugging?  That is -- is it
anticipated that there will be anything beyond explicit user-written
methods and insertion of "print statements" to help track what's going
on in a vat, set of objects, or other kind of arena?  I could imagine,
for example, a special super-user capability that allowed the
debugging entity to get back-door access to internals of all objects
in a vat.  It sounds horribly wrong, and surely one could do better,
but what exactly are the alternatives?

If this has been discussed on e-lang in the past, please send me a
reference to the appropriate place in the mail archive.

Thanks
Jonathan Rees