Mark,

Mark van Gulik wrote:
> 
> > Mark,
> >
> > "Mark van Gulik" <ghoul6 at home.net> wrote:
> >> > Marcel Weiher <marcel at metaobject.com> wrote:

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> > My experience of hooks is that it is impossible to get a birds.view of things
> > and that locks it in. If one should be able to shape things that cannot
> > be done from little peeking places.
> 
> Sigh.  I also like birds eye views.  Most of my tools are reverse
> engineering tools, specifically for assisting my understanding of systems I
> encounter.  For example, with a single keystroke I can bring up a graphical
> cross-reference of a class, showing (as a directed graph) which methods
> invoke which other methods, and how the instance variables are used.  I have
> similar tools at the application, config map, and image levels.  Without
> these, it would take me a *lot* longer to answer simple questions like "How
> does this class work?", or "Who uses these features of this class?".

Inspite of not following these thread in deep, I have a question:

What tools are you using as reverse engineering tools?
Are they
- for Smalltalk/Squeak,
- published,
- open source?

Greetings,

Stephan

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-- 
Stephan Rudlof (sr at evolgo.de)
   "Genius doesn't work on an assembly line basis.
    You can't simply say, 'Today I will be brilliant.'"
    -- Kirk, "The Ultimate Computer", stardate 4731.3