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

Tobias Pape Das.Linux at gmx.de
Wed Mar 29 21:48:58 UTC 2017


> On 29.03.2017, at 23:43, Levente Uzonyi <leves at caesar.elte.hu> wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 

Well, there's WrappedBreakpoint, which can do that without recompiling…

> 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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