Hi Marcus,

On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 11:29 PM, Marcus Denker <marcus.denker@inria.fr> wrote:

On 25 Sep 2014, at 23:02, phil@highoctane.be wrote:

> Well, the full story is that the decompiler is now gone with Opal.
>
There is a decompiler again in Pharo4

> So, there were 3 in the beginning. So, of course with 2, this becomes a switch.
>
> Why no decompiler anymore, for the layman I am?
>
The *option* of showing decompiled code in the browser: Honestly, I do not get
why this was useful, ever.

I can think of three reasons. ��

1. mutable literals. ��using the decompiler is a quick way to check if a literal has been corrupted/modified

2. if you're working on the decompiler this is convenient

3. when Dan's encode temp names in trailer and decompile scheme was being developed/used there would be no need to display sources

�� Marcus

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best,

Eliot