Mostly I take for granted that "DoIt" has always been the way to evaluate things with Smalltalk, however I find it awkward to use in writing a tutorial. Some examples... * After saving, select "Grid new" and "DoIt" -- this sounds awkward, and even that you might need select the latter as well.
* After saving, "Grid new" DoIt.  -- doesn't read nice
* After saving, DoIt to "Grid new."  -- worst of all

I'd feel better writing something like this...
* After saving, evaluate "Grid new".
but "evaluate" is not an item in the menus. I think actually many people talk this way with the implicit convention that "evaluate" means "DoIt".

So first, does anyone have a good way to compose sentences using "DoIt".
Second, how evil would it be to change the menus from "DoIt" to "Evaluate" and so avoid the implicit convention.

cheers -ben



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