Igor Stasenko wrote:
Sometimes you want to stub out a tools to make them inaccessible. Or
replace them with different ones.
For instance, one would like to redirect Transcript output to file, or
suppress debugger / browser / inspector.
The proposed solution is more a symptom fix than a real solution.
You want to make the number of access points as small as possible, so
you have e.g. one point where to turn off the debugger. By that I mean
turning off the debugger and not trick the system by stubbing it out.
Same for access to Transcript. There shouldn't really be *any* direct
reference to Transcript to begin with, but rather a small but effective
logging API, e.g. Josef's toothpick.
We Smalltalkers (I just happen to reply to Igor here, I'm including
myself in this remark too ;-) ) tend to use magic tricks just because we
can, but that doesn't mean it is good engineering.
Michael
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