[squeak-dev] What turns off newcomers

Andreas Wacknitz A.Wacknitz at gmx.de
Wed Apr 9 19:03:11 UTC 2008


Am 09.04.2008 um 18:59 schrieb Ken G. Brown:

> One thing that really bothered me when first starting out with  
> Squeak, was the requirement for modifying code in order add 'self  
> halt' to work with the debugger.
> I still find that to be bothersome. Intuitively it seems to me that  
> breakpoints should have no way to modify code.
>
Yes, that is a point that annoys me, too.
Even Dolphin Smalltalk has this drawback, but there is a sophisticated  
solution in Tools+ (by Solutions Software) called Method Spies.

Andreas



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