[squeak-dev] What turns off newcomers

kengbrown kbrown at mac.com
Wed Apr 9 20:02:56 UTC 2008


--- In squeak at yahoogroups.com, Herbert König <herbertkoenig at ...> wrote:
>
> Hello Ken,
> 
> KGB> One thing that really bothered me when first starting out
> KGB> with Squeak, was the requirement for modifying code in order add
> KGB> 'self halt' to work with the debugger.
> 
> select some code, right click and select "Debug it".
> 
> That's even better than putting "0 halt" (saves 3 keystrokes) into the
> code as you don't have to select the (usually) second line in the
> notifier.
> 
> Took me long to try this :-))
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Herbert
>

Yes, that is the way to get started alright. However when first learning about Squeak, I 
would do that, then step through things in some detail the first time to see what was 
going on, but once you get so far along, you don't want to go through that long process 
again, so you still need to insert a self halt from the Debugger at whatever interesting 
point you are at, so you can get back there again. I don't see any way to set a breakpoint 
on a method of interest while in the Debugger, maybe I'm missing it.  

Ken G. Brown




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