On 26 Sep 2014, at 20:44, Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda@gmail.com> wrote:

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

Yes, but all this does not mean that there need to be a button always visible for it�

(and maybe GTInspector already provides the perfect tool for it? I guess it does: Decompiler

can define a view for CompiledMethod, it is added as a tab, the tabs let you switch easily between code, AST, IR, CM Header and everyone

else who defines an inspector view for the method)

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