From: hipster <hipster@...4all.nl>
Date: 2000-11-07T22:09:33+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:6119] Re: What would a Ruby browser look like?

On Tue, 07 Nov 2000  15:17:16 +0900, Conrad Schneiker/Austin/Contr/IBM wrote:
[snip]
> Well, one possible way to start is to consider what sorts of 
> "macro-graphical-data-structures" might provide a good representation of 
> Ruby programs, and what different types of attribute-selective "C.A.T. 
> scans" would be useful for looking at it. (Hmm. How does Ruby "see" these 
> things internally?)
> 
> Another possible way to start is to think how you might represent a Ruby 
> program and the Ruby infrastructure as a big web site, and copy ideas used 
> for GUI interfaces used to develop and manage such things. 
> 
> What sorts of features do advanced/modern programming environments for 
> CLOS provide to deal with such things?

FYI: The UML-based Specification Environment (USE) does some very
nifty things with UML/OCL specifications. This might provide some
ideas.

	http://www.db.informatik.uni-bremen.de/projects/USE

USE is a research tool, but it certainly provides a feel for what it's
like to manipulate live objects (and have a graphical, albeit
non-interactive, representation of the lattice).

	HTH,
	Michel