Hi Steven,

2016-04-26 14:39 GMT+02:00 Steven Costiou <steven.costiou@kloum.io>:

Hello,

i am not new to Pharo nor to the list but this is the first time i speak here, so : hi =)

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I started a phd a few month ago (with Alain Plantec) on context oriented programming and dynamic programs adaptation. I am using Pharo for my experiments and i would like to intercept messages sent to an object just before they get to their receiver. To be more specific, when #msg is sent to an object o, i want to be able to intercept it just before it is actually executed with the following objects at my disposal : the receiver (o), the message or selector, the sender. My objective by doing that is to (try to) change the lookup for a given method, and to be able to choose in which class the lookup will start.

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I have been looking a bit and it does not seem to be a "simple" way to do that in Pharo. Is that even possible and if so, any advice on where i should look ?

The easiest would be to use proxy or ghost objects, which catches all message sends to a proxy of the real object and let you decide what to do with them. A recent announcement on Ghosts for Pharo 5 was done, maybe starting with that could be an idea.

http://forum.world.st/Ann-New-version-of-Ghost-td4886357.html

For old timers: wasn't Actalk done that way ?

Thierry
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Thanks,

Steven.