Pharo has one simple basic rule: everything is an object. But the objects themselves are not entities living in an abstract universe and do not drink the dew of lilies of the valley for breakfast. They exist in the object memory served by the virtual machine. The virtual machine defines an interface that strictly specifiesContinue reading “On the edge of class rules”
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Implementing an object-centric breakpoint with Reflectivity
In this post, we describe how we implement a breakpoint that affects only one specific object, and how we implement it using the Reflectivity framework. What is an object-centric breakpoint? Let’s take a simple example: imagine two Point instances p1 and p2. Each of these points has two instance variables, x and y, that weContinue reading “Implementing an object-centric breakpoint with Reflectivity”
The Pharo Dev: Mastering Objects 