From: Mark Wilson <mwilson13@...>
Date: 2003-08-06T23:15:05+09:00
Subject: Re: newbie question from a smalltalker


On Wednesday, August 6, 2003, at 09:02 AM, Adriano Volpones wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I am a seasoned Smalltalk developer and I'm playing with Ruby which I 
> found
> the best script language in the spirit of Smalltalk.
>
> What I cannot find in it is the entire world of programming and 
> refactoring
> tools that are for long time available in every Smalltalk environment.
>
> For example the simple list of "implementors" and "senders" of a 
> method is
> invaluable when the project begins to grow up to hundreds of classes.
> [snip]

I hope that you can put together a list of the tools you would like to 
see in Ruby from your perspective based on experience with Smalltalk.

It should be possible to create a list of implementors and senders of a 
method using the ObjectSpace module and each object's built-in 
introspection methods (class, respond_to?, methods, 
methods.include?(<method name>), etc.).

Regards,

Mark