Ok I will add your email next time.
On Sun, Jan 28, 2018 at 8:57 AM, Yuriy Tymchuk <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Stef. > > First of all, please include my email in the recipients list. I’m committed > to maintain the Rule infrastructure, but I rarely manage to read through > Pharo dev. I was nice that Myroslava told me about this email. Ok I will add your email next time. > Secondly I suppose that you are working on Pharo 7, because Pharo 6 mostly > follows the old approach. I do not know since it was not on my machine but most probably pharo 70 > > One thing that can cause a rule not showing up is caching, and although it > should be automatically invalidated upon the addition of a new rule, you can > manually clear it by searching for “Renraku” in settings and pressing the > “Reset rule cache” button. Ahhhhhh this is what we suspected. > You should not subclass RBTransformationRule, you should subclass > ReNodeRewriteRule. In fact if you check, there are no subclasses of > RBTransformationRule. This is strange because I remember that ifNotNilDo was a subclass. But again is was on a machine with super small fonts :) > > Now about documentation. I suspect that my IWST presentation and the Renraku > paper (Thesis chapter) are not enough, but the problem is that nobody tried > to create rules and give me a feedback about that so far. As you are adding > new rules, I think that this is a nice opportunity to write some kind of a > booklet, because rules are really powerful and we should share the knowledge > of how to create them (and we should also simplify the creation process). Yes I would love to have a booklet on that. Do you want to join effort? > Right now there is a “Renraku Quality Rules” help group in the main Pharo > help browser that provides a brief description of how to create rules and run > them. I think that this is a good starting point because I tried to put there > the essential information needed to start with rule creation. Excellent we will read it. > P.S. what would be nice is to generate booklets from Pharo help, because I > does not make sense to have 2 sources of documentation. Yes we are working on Pillar and we will get there. Now a booklet for three or four pages of description is not worth. So may be the inverse is better. What we could do is to extend the help to display the pillar booklet inside the image. But slowing.... > Cheers. > Uko > >> On 27 Jan 2018, at 16:19, Stephane Ducasse <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi yuriy >> >> We defined a new rule subclass of RBTransformationRule and we did not >> get why the rule >> was not taken into account. >> >> We put an halt in another class such as ifNotNilDo: in >> - initialize (is there a cache)? >> - checkMethod: >> >> and it did not stop. >> We started to >> to watch your ESUG videos >> to read your PhD >> >> but it did not help us. >> >> Stef >> > >
