thanks. Stef
On Jun 12, 2010, at 10:33 AM, Johan Brichau wrote: > Issue #156 (http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=156) states that > PointerFinder and PointerExplorer both have issues leaving out some pointers. > > Andy and I have been looking at the implementation of PointerFinder and > PointerExplorer in Pharo1.1 to fix this. > > We came to the decision to throw out PointerFinder, replace its uses to uses > of PointerExplorer and move PointerFinder's #pointersTo* class methods to > ProtoObject because: > - PointerFinder's (instance) behavior seems to be really old code that was > not using the pointsTo: (primitive) method, while its #pointersTo* class > methods were using the pointsTo: (primitive) method > - It also seems the instance behavior of PointerFinder was wrong (it did not > give us all pointers *at all*) > - PointerExplorer offers the same functionality using a tree view and > eventually used the #pointersTo* class methods of PointerFinder... > > The fix is in SLICE-PointerFinderRemove-AndyKellens.1 and should be for 1.2 > > Maybe anyone has another opinion? > > ---------------------------- > Johan Brichau > [email protected] > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Pharo-project mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
