Hi,
When we announced the GT Documenter as an application for the moldable editor,
one of the remarks was that GT Examples implementation relies too much on
pragma magic.
We are now happy to announce that this is no longer the case because Andrei did
a great job and rebuilt examples without the need for static pragmas for
specifying dependencies.
So, now we can example dependencies simply through normal calls:
emptyView
<gtExample>
^ GtMondrian new
twoNodes
<gtExamples>
view := self emptyView
view nodes with: {1 . 2}
... and the engine can figure out the static dependencies. This means that
examples can be used both as plain unary methods, and as replacement for tests.
We think this should address the worry of examples being too heavy (the current
implementation is ~350 lines).
With a bit of extra effort, we also adapted GT Documenter to expand the example
dependencies as seen below. This means that examples can now be used directly
as units of documentation as well.
We think this is significant.
Cheers,
The feenk team
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