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> On 28 Jan 2018, at 22:50, Stephane Ducasse <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 If it is Pharo 6 then you can just follow the old smalllint strategy, but you may need to reset the cache. > >> >> 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? Yes, but I need user experience. Because I already tried to document Renraku here and there but I don’t know what is not clear. Also I expect that Myroslava can join. > > >> 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 >>> >> >> >
