+1 to what Sabine says. Very useful behavior.

Phil


On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 8:03 AM, Sabine Knöfel <[email protected]>wrote:

> I should give an example why this is not useful for me.
>
> While developing, I use >>inspect to see, what is in any object AND I want
> the app to proceed.
> E.g. while creating a report, I want to see the table columns in an
> inspector.
> I don't want to halt and debug, I only want to see an inspector.
>
> self currentPage        add:
>                 (PDFDataTableWithColumnsCaptionElement new
>                         captions: self costReportDaysTableColumns inspect;
>                         data: ...;
>
> Now, I have to write it like that
>
> self costReportDaysTableColumns inspect.
> self currentPage add:
>                 (PDFDataTableWithColumnsCaptionElement new
>                         captions: self costReportDaysTableColumns ;
>                         data: ...;
>
> Yes, this is possible but it is not so easigoing as simply put an inspect
> somewhere.
>
> Remarks:
> 1) I develop a seaside app. I am not interested in the System Window;-)
> 2) I cant find a selector >>onWindowClosed:
> 3) >>inspect is a selector which exists in every smalltalk dialect. In
> every
> smalltalk dialect I worked with, inspect returned the receiver.  It is kind
> of standard IMHO.
>
>
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