[squeak-dev] Object>>printOn: refined.

Marcel Taeumel marcel.taeumel at hpi.de
Tue Jun 2 12:48:47 UTC 2020


There is also the possibility to change Object >> #defaultLabelForInspector, which is virtually in The "Tools" package. :-)

Best,
Marcel
Am 02.06.2020 14:38:46 schrieb Tobias Pape <das.linux at gmx.de>:
Hi

> On 02.06.2020, at 14:10, Trygve Reenskaug wrote:
>
> I find it frustrating to open 3 inspectors on different objects, all of them titled 'aString' (or whatever),
> IMO, it is much better to open them on the 3 objects: [1234] aString, [3456] a String, [4567 a String.
> The numbers in square brackets stand for the objects oop, actually its identityHash. They can be a 7-digit numbers; much too long for my short-time memory to hold many of them. I therefore truncate the number to 4 digits, accepting that I may, in rare cases, get 2 objects with the same identifier.
>
> I'm running 'Squeak5.3'.
> Object>>printOn: aStream
> "Append to the argument, aStream, a sequence of characters that identifies the receiver."
> " The previous version identified the class, not the instance "
> " This new version identifies the instance with its oop. "
> " I arbitrarily truncate the oop to 4 digits to simplify reading. "
>
> | title |
> title := self class name.
> aStream
> nextPutAll: '[' , (self asOop printString truncateTo: 4) , ']' ;
> nextPutAll: (title first isVowel ifTrue: ['an '] ifFalse: ['a ']);
> nextPutAll: title

I'd rather not increase any complexity in Object.
Besides, both oop and identityHash are too low-level for the average work-flow.
Teaching user to think in these numbers is, IMHO, not the right direction.

-1.

Best regards
-Tobias


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