On Jun 10, 2013, at 6:56 PM, [email protected] wrote:
> Am 10.06.13 18:01, schrieb Marcus Denker:
>>
>>> Breaks the Principal of Least Surprise for those you want to attract from
>>> other dialects. They may end up with a strong opinion on it :)
>>
>>
>> I am not against reverting the inspect change.. but it should be documented
>> well, else this will be changed again in the future.
>>
>> Another thing is that starting from 3.0, I am sure that nobody will ever put
>> "inspect" or "halt" anywhere as they will use meta-links
>> instead…
> hmm. that is probably just 5 minutes away from Pharo's world domination ;-)
> As long as Pharo is "Smalltalk inspired", people will probably come up with
> solutions they learned in Smalltalk. I have not yet come to be a frequent
> Pharo user, but coming from another Smalltalk dialect, I would probably face
> the same problem as Sabine mentioned it. I am not sure I use inspect in
> message cascades very often, because I tend to avoid cascades in methods that
> look or feel as if I may want to inspect preliminary results, so I am
> probably unlikely to tap into the same trap often. But if I would, I'd be
> scratching my head and ask myself what the heck this could ever be good for…
So maybe we can
-> add #inspector that returns the tool
-> make inspect be like it was before (with documentation).
Marcus
