On 26.09.2009, at 04:43, K. K. Subramaniam wrote:
Hi,
In Etoy viewers, some of the slots like bearingTo don't have watchers on them.
Requiring an argument, these are not slots, but functions. Not having a read-out on them is intentional.
Is this because of computational load?
I don't think so, but maybe Scott can enlighten us on the design reasoning? I think it made sense that only properties of the object itself have read-outs, not relationships to its environment.
They don't act like number tiles in assignments. It is disturbing to drop them into assignments and not be able to append arith operators.
That's just a bug. Please file a ticket.
If so, could a different icon (say yellow menu instead of a white one) be used for such slots?
Maybe, maybe not. Having a lot of different icons might be confusing, too?
- Bert -