---
title: "Untangling Spaghetti: Debugging Non-Terminating Object Programs"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/untangling-spaghetti-debugging-non-terminating-object-programs-oxcstpn3t
source_url: https://tidyfirst.substack.com/p/untangling-spaghetti-debugging-non
type: article
source: "Software Design: Tidy First?"
published: 2024-04-22T13:47:02.896Z
updated: 2024-05-09T09:13:33.132Z
tags: ["recursion"]
reading_time: 5
upvotes: 0
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# Untangling Spaghetti: Debugging Non-Terminating Object Programs

**[Software Design: Tidy First?](https://daily.dev/sources/tidyfirst)** · 5 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

To debug non-terminating object programs, successively inline the methods on the stack until you have a self-referencing method. Seeing the problem in a single method helps you identify the source of the problem and identify possible fixes.

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