Deep Cuts

Rockstar’s a fun language but once in a while you might stumble across a weird bug – and yes, it’s probably a bug, but here’s some tips that might help you figure out what’s going on so you can report it and/or work around it.

@dump

The @dump statement will print the entire current state of your program’s memory to STDOUT, along with object id numbers which will show you whether two different variable or references are actually pointing to the same underlying value or not:

Alpha is "one"
let beta be alpha
put beta into gamma
@dump

rock the array with alpha, beta, gamma
@dump
roll alpha
@dump