[Cuis-dev] I think i found a bug in the debugger

[Nicola Mingotti]

On 8/7/21 1:35 PM, Hernan Wilkinson wrote:
> Hi Nicola,
>  I'm sorry! I misunderstood your email! I read the subject with the 
> word "bug" and then went directly to the image you pasted and I 
> thought "it is not a bug, it is how it is intended to work" :-)
No problem ;)

>  I agree that on this example, it would be better to see 'nil' than 
> just nil because it is confusing but for sure there is a reason not to 
> do it that way... I mean, Smalltalk is a mature system and for sure 
> there is a reason for showing strings that way, sadly I do not 
> know/recall that reason.
>  Anyway, it is not a bug. It would be interesting to see the behavior 
> of the change Gerald suggested... maybe the reason for that "if" was 
> only "performance" (why create a new string if we already have one) 
> and if so, changing that behaviour would be an improvement from the UI 
> point of view as you suggested.
>
>  Cheers!
>  Hernan

For the moment I leave to you, Gerald and other experienced programmers 
further considerations.
I can't see a very strong reason to display things that way in the 
debugger ... still, i am a novice.

I prefer not to patch the core and diverge from master for the moment. 
Maybe in 1 months or so.
Reason is, when I post to the list i want to be 100% sure you see what i 
see.


Bye
Nicola

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