Karl,
Perhaps you could tell me how this should have been submitted. I know this 
form is all wrong, but I use the attached methods a lot for exploring other 
people's code and for debugging my own.

The methods are easy to use and remind me where I put trace commands. They 
can also show the stack, which tells me where a certain message came from.

There are three new methods to be added in Object. They do the following:

execute:
    nil dpsTrace: 'sludder'.
Transcript shows
    class name/method name (obj asString or printString)
e.g.,
    MethodContext/DoIt (sludder)

execute:
    nil dpsTrace: 'hello' levels: 5.
Transcript shows the trace message and the stack:
    1: MethodContext/DoIt (hello)
    2: Compiler/evaluate:in:to:notifying:ifFail:
    3: TextMorphEditor/evaluateSelection
    4: BlockContext/on:do:
    5: TextMorphEditor/evaluateSelection

The third form is:
    dpsTrace: reportObject levels: anInt withContext: currentContext
This is the general form, rarely used directly.

Enjoy
--Trygve


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