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The debbuggable interpreter design pattern

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2007
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The use of Interpreter and Visitor design patterns has been widely adopted to implement programming language interpreters due to their expressive and simple design. However, no general approach to conceive a debugger is commonly adopted. This paper presents the debuggable interpreter design pattern as a general approach to extend a language interpreter with debugging facilities such as step-over and step-into. Moreover, it enables multiple debuggers coexisting and extends the Interpreter and Visitor design patterns with a few hooks and a debugging service. SmallJS, an interpreter for Javascript-like language, serves as an illustration.
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Lero - The Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Software
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program interpretation, debugger, design pattern, programming environment
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https://hdl.handle.net/10344/2181
 https://doi.org/10.34961/793
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Science Foundation Ireland (SFI)
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