[squeak-dev] Squeak 6 kernel changes, ContextPart+MethodContext -> Context

Levente Uzonyi leves at caesar.elte.hu
Wed Mar 29 21:43:37 UTC 2017


The one which allows you to break at any instruction. There is "toggle 
break on entry", which does nothing but recompile your method with `self 
break` at the start. I find that feature hardly useful.

Levente

On Wed, 29 Mar 2017, Tobias Pape wrote:

>
>> On 29.03.2017, at 23:16, Levente Uzonyi <leves at caesar.elte.hu> wrote:
>> 
>> On Wed, 29 Mar 2017, Eliot Miranda wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi All,
>>>    another change planned for Squeak 6 is eliminating ContextPart & MethodContext in favor of Context.  In reviewing the (very few) changes
>>> necessary I came across the following:
>>> MethodContext>>printString
>>> "Answer an emphasized string in case of a breakpoint method"
>>> ^(self method notNil and: [self method hasBreakpoint])
>>> ifTrue:[(super printString , ' [break]') asText allBold]
>>> ifFalse:[super printString] 
>>> Seriously?  I don't object to modifying [Method]Conext>>printOn: to include [break] but having printString answer a text seems completely broken
>>> to me, and overriding printString is a hack; printOn: being the operative method for producing self-descriptions.  Should we nuke it and add
>>> [break] to printOn:? Or...?
>> 
>> Nuke it. AFAIK breakpoints never worked.
>
> which?
>
>> 
>> Levente
>> 
>>> _,,,^..^,,,_
>>> best, Eliot
>>


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