<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><blockquote type="cite">On Dec 26, 2022, at 3:23 PM, Chris Muller <asqueaker@gmail.com> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Dec 26, 2022 at 10:04 AM Jakob Reschke <<a href="mailto:jakres%2Bsqueak@gmail.com">jakres+squeak@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div>Since there is a PointerExplorerWrapper in this trace I believe that a pointer explorer is already open on one of the objects, or that this tool does not exclude itself from its own pointer search...</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">If the latter is the case, it would be a Heisentool, where the attempt of using it changes that which it is supposed to observe. :-P</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Which is why I don't use the pointer explorer when I'm trying to clean all instance of a class out. Instead:</div><div><br></div><div> TheClass allInstances anyOne chasePointers</div></div></div></div></blockquote><br><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote">TheClass someInstance ifNotNil: [:obj| obj chasePointers]</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div></div></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">_,,,^..^,,,_ (phone)</span></div></div></body></html>