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I did both of these at once last week.
Added a breakpoint. Debugger didn’t break.
Added an
echo "here";
. Debugger didn’t print.Added a
throw new Exception('fuck');
. Debugger didn’t throw.Stepped through. Debugger wouldn’t let me step in.
It took me almost an hour to realize it wasn’t the debugger’s fault and that a variable I thought was guaranteed to be truthy at that point was actually falsey due to upstream changes in a spreadsheet parser. I felt kind of stupid for not trusting the debugger at that point.