Senders, Implementors browser - how about a "Sendees" browser?
itsme213
itsme213 at hotmail.com
Thu Jan 10 19:34:11 UTC 2008
"itsme213" <itsme213 at hotmail.com> wrote in message
I'm on a roll ... so here is a real example of what auto-generated class
documentation could look like following this approach:
>
> If you look over the description, you will notice that these are not
> static types. They are just groupings of message sends per inst-Var,
> pseudo-var, etc. as are known 100% correctly to Squeak. They are not
> classes, groups of classes, or even message categories.
>
> e.g.
> This is my class C.
> I implement: #(foo, bar, baz, fooSub)
> My instances collaborate by sending:
> #(m1, m2) to my collaborators via instVarA
> #(m1, m5) to my collaborators via instVarB
> #(initialize) to [self via] super
> #(fooSub) to self
> #(classFoo) to my class C
> #(x1, x2, x3, ....) to others via dynamic method params
> And within each of my methods #(foo, bar, baz, fooSub)
> here is C>>each method's narrower collaboration ...
>
> Do you think many ST programmers design and think in these terms? I know I
> do. I think I would benefit *greatly* from seeing this view on both my own
> classes, and from others' packages I want to use.
>
> Sophie
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