1075416 - Don't delete/remove out of scope watch expressions

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(DevTools :: Debugger, defect)

Description

[Jeff Griffiths (:canuckistani) (:⚡︎)]

Title says it all, I think, except to say, the only debugger I've ever used (in 30+ years) that does this is the firefox devtools debugger.

From: https://ffdevtools.uservoice.com/forums/246087-firefox-developer-tools-ideas/suggestions/6449530-debugger-don-t-delete-remove-out-of-scope-watch-e

Comment 1

[Codacoder]

Related? The ultra-annoyance caused by "optimized away". I have no problem with the engine doing this on runtime code running PURELY in the browser, but that's entirely different to code being debugged - it has THREE (at least) "clients" one of them, me, a human.

Said another way, how can the engine know when it's optimal to remove something from my personal view?

Comment 2

[David Walsh :davidwalsh]

This doesn't happen in the new debugger.