[squeak-dev] The Trunk: Kernel-laza.428.mcz

David T. Lewis lewis at mail.msen.com
Mon Mar 22 12:13:14 UTC 2010


On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 12:55:55PM +0100, Alexander Lazarevi?? wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 12:17, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de>wrote:
> 
> > Also, instance variable order is significant so in a debug method I'd
> > rather prefer to not see it changed - what's your reasoning here?
> >
> 
> Maybe I just can't see how it does help in a debugger to have the instance
> vars listed in the order they were defined. Usually I'm looking for names
> not slot indices? No?
> 
> (Truly wondering!)

Usually yes, but not always. See senders of #instVarAt:. If you were
debugging any of those methods, you would want to see the variables
listed in the correct order.

Dave




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