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...
But I also agree with what you are saying: if newly introduced behavior
is changed again, it should be for a good reason and documented well.
Otherwise people may get the impression Pharo is immature and instable.
And that would be no good - neither for Smalltalk-switchers nor for
newborn Smalltalkers.
Joachim
