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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>bread crumbs</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../B.html" title="B"/><link rel="previous" href="brainwidth.html" title="brainwidth"/><link rel="next" href="break.html" title="break"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">bread crumbs</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="brainwidth.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">B</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="break.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="bread-crumbs"/><dt xmlns="" id="bread-crumbs"><b>bread crumbs</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. Debugging statements inserted into a program that emit output or
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log indicators of the program's <a href="../S/state.html"><i class="glossterm">state</i></a> to a file so
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you can see where it dies or pin down the cause of surprising behavior. The
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term is probably a reference to the Hansel and Gretel story from the
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Brothers Grimm or the older French folktale of Thumbelina; in several
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variants of these, a character leaves a trail of bread crumbs so as not to
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get lost in the woods. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. In user-interface design, any feature that allows some tracking
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of where you've been, like coloring visited links purple rather than blue
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in Netscape (also called <span class="firstterm">footprinting</span>).</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="brainwidth.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../B.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="break.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">brainwidth </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> break</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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