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bread crumbs
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n. 1. Debugging statements inserted into a program that emit output or log
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indicators of the program's state to a file so you can see where it dies or
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pin down the cause of surprising behavior. The term is probably a reference
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to the Hansel and Gretel story from the Brothers Grimm or the older French
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folktale of Thumbelina; in several variants of these, a character leaves a
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trail of bread crumbs so as not to get lost in the woods. 2. In
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user-interface design, any feature that allows some tracking of where you've
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been, like coloring visited links purple rather than blue in Netscape (also
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called footprinting ).
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