Blocks
Nevin Pratt
nevin at smalltalkpro.com
Thu Jun 26 18:52:52 UTC 2003
There's a minor annoyance I have with Squeak, and have had it for some
time. With VisualWorks, I can look at a block in the debugger, and see
the source code of the block. I can't do that with Squeak.
No, I'm not talking about stepping into a block-- I know I can do that
just fine.
But if I inspect an object, and that object has an instance variable
whose value is a block, and I then inspect that instance variable,
VisualWorks gives me a lot more context information about the block than
Squeak does.
With VisualWorks, that context includes the source code where the block
was created. With Squeak, I have a BlockContext that has a
MethodContext that has a CompiledMethod (as well as a receiver), but
nowhere can I see source to the block from the debugger this way.
Does this bother anybody else?
Nevin
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