Novel form of refactoring

Avi Bryant avi at beta4.com
Fri Oct 24 23:33:45 UTC 2003


Brian T Rice wrote:

>On Fri, 24 Oct 2003, Avi Bryant wrote:
>  
>
>>How about this:
>>
>>packageName := 'MyPackage'.
>>methodRef := (PackageInfo named: packageName) methods atRandom.
>>Browser fullOnClass: methodRef actualClass selector: methodRef methodSymbol.
>>
>>Cheers,
>>Avi
>>    
>>
>
>That's much better, and a great PackageInfo demo. :-)
>
>Now, what would make a suitable UI hook for this? A context menu entry? If
>so, where?
>

I started putting together a system for registering package-related 
services, and a simple package list + context menu UI to demo it.  You 
can find it at http://beta4.com/mc/packageinfo-dev.  I should release 
this soon so we can roll it into 3.7, but I'd like people to take a look 
and make comments first.

Avi




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