[squeak-dev] using reflections in squeak

Dvir Faivel sdvirf at t2.technion.ac.il
Mon Apr 29 20:32:03 UTC 2013


Thanks (again)!


On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 11:15 PM, Bob Arning <arning315 at comcast.net> wrote:

>  aClass compile: (aClass sourceCodeAt: aMethod) string,' "** this is a
> comment**"'
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> Cheers,
> Bob
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>  On 4/29/13 4:03 PM, Dvir Faivel wrote:
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>  T
> hanks Bob! the example helped a lot.
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>  Tim, i want to change the behavior of some methods (at runtime, based on
> the user's decision).
>   for example, if a method of class A contains the comment:
> "hello, this is a comment"
>  than if B inherits from A, this method wouldn't be inherited (an attempt
> to call this method from an object of type B would cause an exception to be
> thrown).
>   the reason i'm using a comment is that it doesn't affect the code.
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>   is there a simple way to add a code to a method?
>   for example, to add "this is a comment" to the end of the code?
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> On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 2:46 AM, tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:
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>> On 28-04-2013, at 1:55 PM, Dvir Faivel <sdvirf at t2.technion.ac.il> wrote:
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>> > hi there,
>> > i have a question about squeak object model.
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>> > how can i check whether a method contains a certain piece of code?
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>>  You'll get better advice if you expand upon what you want & why; what is
>> the real problem you are trying to solve here?
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>> If, for example you're simply wanting to programatically find all senders
>> of a particular message then the code is already there -
>> take a look at SystemNavigation>allCallsOn:fromBehaviors:sorted: to see
>> how to scan all the methods implemented by a list of behaviours (ie classes
>> or metaclasses) for sends of a particular message, including ones that are
>> special cases.
>> If you already know which class and method you want to look at then
>> examine Behavior>whichSelectorsReferTo:specialByte:thorough: to see how the
>> system does it.
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>> Or are you wanting to look for particular fragments of code with some
>> sort of text based pattern matching? Or…?
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>>
>> tim
>> --
>> tim Rowledge; tim at rowledge.org; http://www.rowledge.org/tim
>> ASCII to  ASCII, DOS to DOS.
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