On 1 June 2012 20:12, Esteban A. Maringolo <[email protected]> wrote: > > Stéphane Ducasse wrote >> >> we should produce more 5 min videos!!! >> Look we are not able to even do that. >> > > No smalltalker with a sane mind would record himself five minutes doing his > regular work. :) > Haha.. well said!
> But truth is we should find a way to impress people like light table did. > The truth is, that its not impressed me.. after things i seen in smalltalk. > The most impressive thing in the demo, and I'd bet that was the main > resonator in the audience, was the variables replacement by its current > values. > > I don't know how hard would be to have debugger with a splitted window or > viewing mode showing the code with the actual values of the variables. > we should have better text/parser model.. then you can easily view the variable value(s), just by hovering mouse over the text piece in debugger. btw, Gaucho already takes steps into that direction: it using parser to navigate the code using the AST tree (so you not walking over separate characters, but over AST nodes) it is not far from that point to debugger and/or code pane, where you can exploit that (code highlighting/contextual help, navigating etc etc). -- Best regards, Igor Stasenko.
