Re: [Pharo-dev] Empirical Analysis of Programming Language Adoption

[Esteban Lorenzano]

> On 9 Jun 2018, at 00:58, Sean P. DeNigris <s...@clipperadams.com> wrote:
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> Thomas Dupriez wrote
>> I got stuck countless times when 
>> reading pharo code, because there was a message send to a variable I 
>> didn't know the type of, so I couldn't know which method was being 
>> called (because there were multiple methods with that name in the 
>> system). So the only solution was to place a breakpoint and get that 
>> method to be executed.
> 
> That is an interesting perspective. I usually browse senders. This almost*
> always seems to work, except when the message selector is very generic and
> reused in different contexts (e.g. #next)

then you can scope your senders. There are 99% of possibilities your message is 
sent within the context of the class or package you are looking for.

Esteban

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