[squeak-dev] Can we extract type information from the VM?

Frank Shearar frank.shearar at gmail.com
Sun Sep 15 09:54:13 UTC 2013


I was rereading Phlip's "what's wrong with our IDEs" post -
http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2008/05/dynamic_languages_vs_editors.html
- and realised that he's just verbalised something I've only
half-thought.

When we run our tests (because of course we're using TDD) we know the
precise types/expected classes of everything, because the VM
automatically collects (or can collect) this information.

But how do we get that information out of the VM?

frank


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