On May 19, 2010, at 9:17 PM, Carla F. Griggio wrote:
> Just reproducing it would be helpful :O a friend of mine already
> tested the code I attatched and saw the same problem.
>
> If you recall having a class with a method sending a message to super,
> and a sublclass inheriting that method, you can try to reproduce it
> there too debugging that message on an instance of the subclass.
>
> It's not easy to explain with words, that's why I made a little
> package of code to illustrate the situation.
>
> The thing is that when printing the evaluation of a selected bunch of
> code inside a debugger window (paragraphEditor?), if the code you're
> evaluating is a message to super, and the class of the object you're
> debugging is inheriting the method you're debugging, the printed
> result will be wrong. In other words, the method lookup fails.
>
> This doesn't happen with normal excution of code (thank God!).
>
> I think this is an important bug, seeing those wrong results when
> debugging can be very confusing. I spent hours feeling stupid last
> Monday while debugging because I trusted those wrong results and
> couldn't see where I was doing something wrong :P
>
> Cheers!
> Carla
>
> On Wednesday, May 19, 2010, Mariano Martinez Peck <
marianopeck@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi Carla. I would like to help you, but I have no idea. I could reproduce it.
>>
>> Maybe Lukas, Igor, Eliot etc can help you. I have no idea.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Mariano
>>
>> 2010/5/18 Carla F. Griggio <
carla.griggio@gmail.com>
>> Hi everybody!
>> Well, maybe you are already aware of this... maybe not. I tried to find an issue about this and unless I didn't think of the right keywords, it's not there.
>>
>>
>>
>> I was debugging a template method and sudenly I found myself spending ours trying to find out why I got different results when printing the result of a message sent to super and when steping into that message and printing the (same) result there.
>>
>>
>>
>> Imagine this simple situation (I attatch the complete code and some tests so you can reproduce this):
>> AverageTotalization inherits from Totalization.WeightedAverageTotalization inherits from AverageTotalization.
>>
>>
>>
>> Totalization>>total
>>
>> � � �^self summatory
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> AverageTotalization>>total
>>
>> � � � � ^(super total) / self denominator
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> AverageTotalization>> denominator
>>
>> � � � � ^values size
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> WeightedAverageTotalization>> denominator
>>
>> "Weights is a dictionary"
>>
>> � � �^self weights values sum
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> If I debug aWeightedAverateTotalization total �and try to print super total in the debugger ParagraphEditor, I'll get this result:
>>
>>
>>
>> (self summatory / self denominator)
>>
>>
>> instead of just:
>> self summatory
>> This only happens when I print or inspect or other do-its in the debugger window. The method lookup works OK when just _______________________________________________
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