Hi David,

On Sun, Jan 24, 2021 at 8:10 AM David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:

> I like this proposal. It has no effect on the ProcessBrowser, and is
> helpful when looking at processes elsewhere.
>
> Most processes do not have a name, but all processes respond in a concise
> and useful way to #name.
>
>   Process>>name
>       ^name ifNil: [ self hash asString forceTo: 5 paddingStartWith: $ ]
>

5 is too short.  The identityHash in Spur has 7 digits of significance and
hash => scaledIdentityHash => identityHash * 256.  Also asString is lazy;
it just calls printString. I wouldn't contract at all:

Process>>name
      ^name ifNil: [self hash printString]


> So +1 from me
>
> Dave
>
> On Sun, Jan 24, 2021 at 03:28:20PM +0000, Thiede, Christoph wrote:
> > Hi Eliot,
> >
> >
> > thanks for the feedback! I actually intended to print their short hash
> if they don't have a real name because this can still be very helpful in
> order to differentiate between multiple processes each suspended in the
> same method. It would also help me to identify a process from the process
> browser somewhere else. Do you get my point? :-)
> >
> >
> > Best,
> >
> > Christoph
> >
> > <http://www.hpi.de/>
> > ________________________________
> > Von: Squeak-dev <squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org> im
> Auftrag von Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com>
> > Gesendet: Sonntag, 24. Januar 2021 15:55:42
> > An: squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org
> > Betreff: Re: [squeak-dev] The Inbox: Kernel-ct.1368.mcz
> >
> > Hi Christoph,
> >
> >     only a few processes have a name.  Surely this should test from
> there being a name and not print some noise if it doesn???t have a name.
> >
> > _,,,^..^,,,_ (phone)
> >
> > > On Jan 24, 2021, at 6:19 AM, commits at source.squeak.org wrote:
> > >
> > > ???A new version of Kernel was added to project The Inbox:
> > > http://source.squeak.org/inbox/Kernel-ct.1368.mcz
> > >
> > > ==================== Summary ====================
> > >
> > > Name: Kernel-ct.1368
> > > Author: ct
> > > Time: 24 January 2021, 3:19:48.003384 pm
> > > UUID: c62a6062-b240-9149-a2ed-78fdc1079dfd
> > > Ancestors: Kernel-mt.1364
> > >
> > > Proposal: Always include process name into its print string. This
> facilitates debugging/inspecting of multiprocess scenarios.
> > >
> > > =============== Diff against Kernel-mt.1364 ===============
> > >
> > > Item was changed:
> > >  ----- Method: Process>>longPrintOn: (in category 'printing') -----
> > >  longPrintOn: stream
> > >
> > >      | ctxt |
> > >      super printOn: stream.
> > > +    stream
> > > +        nextPut: $(;
> > > +        nextPutAll: self name;
> > > +        nextPut: $).
> > >      stream cr.
> > >      ctxt := self suspendedContext.
> > >      [ctxt == nil] whileFalse: [
> > >          stream space.
> > >          ctxt printOn: stream.
> > >          stream cr.
> > >          ctxt := ctxt sender.
> > >      ].
> > >  !
> > >
> > > Item was changed:
> > >  ----- Method: Process>>printOn: (in category 'printing') -----
> > >  printOn: aStream
> > >
> > >      super printOn: aStream.
> > > +    aStream
> > > +        nextPut: $(;
> > > +        nextPutAll: self name;
> > > +        nextPut: $).
> > >      aStream nextPutAll: ' in '.
> > >      suspendedContext printOn: aStream!
> > >
> > >
> >
>
> >
>
>
>

-- 
_,,,^..^,,,_
best, Eliot
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