I always had an issue with the inspector and printOn: in Moose

My use of the inspectr is in link with the debugger to understand the details of some behaviour.
When I do debugging, I want to know precisely and accuratly what I am looking at.
But because Moose redefines printOn: to be somehow user friendly, it often gets in the way by printing things that are not the real nature of the object.

This case is one example of my problem

I think the real solution should be to have two printing methods, one tor internal use (debugger, inspector) and another for users.
The two are very different and they have different needs

nicolas

On 23/09/2015 13:58, Peter Uhnák wrote:

Hi,

FM*MultivalueLink has a very confusing printOn: method

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

FM*MultivalueLink>>printOn: aStream

self asArray printOn: aStream

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Converting it to array means that when I see a variable in the inspector it describes itself as array which is quite confusing.

Maybe it should be wrapped?

printOn: aStream

self printNameOn: aStream.

aStream nextPut: $(.

self asArray printOn: aStream.

aStream nextPut: $)

Thanks,

Peter
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