Ok approved it then. Because if this is simple this is the best way to 
raise the attention
of people to use it and improve it.

Stef


On Lundi, nov 17, 2003, at 20:43 Europe/Zurich, Marcus Denker wrote:

>
> Am 17.11.2003 um 19:49 schrieb ducasse:
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>>>> I would love to have breakpoints in but I do not know the extra  
>>>> complexity
>>>
>>> I have looked into this a bit.
>>>
>>> Terry Raymond's (Crafted Smalltalk) excellent
>>
>> Ye I use it and this is great!
>>
>> My point was more what this cs in squeak implies.
>>
> Just had a look at it: It's quite simple... maybe even too simple.
> The way it works is that a new method is compiled with "self break"
> in the first line.
>
> It does: compile the method to get the AST. Then add a "self break"
> statement as the first statement, return the source, compile a method,
> install in methodDict, remember original.
>
> Browser is changed to have a "toggle breakpoint", methods with
> breakpoint are shown bold in the browser.
>
> Problem: the browser shows the code of the newly compiled
> methods, that is: pretty-printed, no comments "self break" in
> the first line. You can even accept the method...
>
> So pretty simple, we can do better I think. But maybe we could
> add this as a first step. Dont know...
>
>      Marcus
>
> --
> Marcus Denker marcus at ira.uka.de
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