[squeak-dev] Re: Old menu items in TextEditors that currently don't work

Tobias Pape Das.Linux at gmx.de
Sun Mar 29 19:57:35 UTC 2015


On 29.03.2015, at 21:52, Stéphane Rollandin <lecteur at zogotounga.net> wrote:

>> I consider explorer and inspector to be entirely different.
>> When I want to explore an object graph, I use the explorer.
>> When I want to directly manipulate a single object, or evaluate
>> expressions in its context, then I use an inspector.

Just to chime in, I typically _exclusviely_ use the explorer, except
I have situations where the explorer is too slow (like really large arrays)
I really like having an overview.

Best
	-Tobias

>> Based on my experience, these things rarely mix, which is probably why
>> these tools coexist.
>> It's probably possible to mix the two tools and get a usable result, but
>> please don't make the same mistake what the Pharo guys did.
> 
> +1
> 
> Stef




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