Inline, briefly. 

On Jan 25, 2013, at 1:55 PM, Frank Shearar <frank.shearar at gmail.com> wrote:

> By "stub out stuff" do you mean "write a stub test case with self
> assert: false"? *raises hand*

Actually, I do that when I'm feeling responsible, as in I-might-want-to-use-this-more-than-once. More often though, I'm dinking around on Project Euler and plan to throw my code away, in which case I just paste in "self break."

> Annoyingly, defining a #subclassResponsibility method destroys my
> flow: the debugger won't, obviously, prompt you for that "create
> method" button I love so much. (Hm, could one restore that with a
> SubclassResponsibilityException that the debugger can catch?)

I'm not sure what the right way to do that would be, but I feel your pain. Try it?

> frank
> 
> On 25 January 2013 21:47, Casey Ransberger <casey.obrien.r at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Here's a fun little survey...
>> 
>> Who here likes to stub out stuff in the system browser and then actually
>> implement things in the debugger?
>> 
>> I find myself doing that sometimes, usually when I'm "on a roll" with what
>> I'm doing. I've never done that with another programming system.
>> 
>> 
>> On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 11:33 AM, H. Hirzel <hannes.hirzel at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> And interesting observation from
>>> 
>>> http://worrydream.com/LearnableProgramming/
>>> 
>>> Names matter.
>>> ---------------------
>>> 
>>> Below are four array methods from Apple's Cocoa framework, and the
>>> equivalent JavaScript methods:
>>> 
>>> Cocoa: addObject                          JavaScript: push
>>> Cocoa: addObjectsFromArray               JavaScript: splice
>>> Cocoa: arrayByAddingObject                  JavaScript:  concat
>>> Cocoa: arrayByAddingObjectsFromArray     JavaScript: concat
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 1/25/13, H. Hirzel <hannes.hirzel at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Thank you for the links
>>>> 
>>>> In particular interesting is
>>>> 
>>>>    http://worrydream.com/LearnableProgramming/
>>>> 
>>>> which is referenced from Bracha's blog entry.
>>>> 
>>>> Interesting to see the evaluation of the Processing language and the
>>>> talk about metaphors.
>>>> E.g. the example of pasting the code for drawing a red flower.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> --Hannes
>>>> 
>>>> On 1/25/13, Frank Shearar <frank.shearar at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> First it was Gilad Bracha -
>>>>> http://gbracha.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/debug-mode-is-only-mode.html -
>>>>> and now John Nolan -
>>>>> 
>>>>> http://stigmergist.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/debugger-first-vm-development.html
>>>>> 
>>>>> I also saw a really neat demo of a framework for debugging system
>>>>> calls. I hope to find out more about this when I quiz the implementor
>>>>> in early February. I would be less vague if I could remember the name
>>>>> of the framework!
>>>>> 
>>>>> frank
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> --
>> Casey Ransberger
>> 
>> 
>> 
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