> On 10 Jan 2016, at 19:01, Nicolas Cellier 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Stack top is really usefull because it contains the result of last expression 
> evaluation.
> Since we took the habit of composing message sends without decomposing into 
> temporary variables, it avoid selecting sub-expression and re-evaluating 
> subparts, or entering into each message to gain finer understanding...
> 
> For thisContext, I don't really see the interest, but maybe someone will find 
> a use case…

thisContext is useful if you want to inspect the sender chain yourself e.g. 
when developing tools like the debugger *with* the debugger.

Cheers,
Max

> 
> 2016-01-10 18:55 GMT+01:00 stepharo <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>>:
> 
> I use both thisContext and stackTop regularly. thisContext maybe once a wee, 
> stackTop probably multiple times a day.
> 
> So explain to me how?
> 
> Stef
> 
> 

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