I would use "Evaluate". And even go a little bit further, and propose a rename of "DoIt" to "Evaluate".
The command line handler is "EvaluateCommandLineHandler". Dolphin used "evaluate", it feels natural even for not-native English speakers like me. Also, REPL stands for read-EVAL-print-loop. So eval is an widely accepted term to run a chunk of code. Regards. Esteban A. Maringolo 2014-07-15 14:20 GMT-03:00 Ben Coman <b...@openinworld.com>: > > Mostly I take for granted that "DoIt" has always been the way to evaluate > things with Smalltalk, however I find it awkward to use in writing a > tutorial. Some examples... * After saving, select "Grid new" and "DoIt" -- > this sounds awkward, and even that you might need select the latter as well. > * After saving, "Grid new" DoIt. -- doesn't read nice > * After saving, DoIt to "Grid new." -- worst of all > > I'd feel better writing something like this... > * After saving, evaluate "Grid new". > but "evaluate" is not an item in the menus. I think actually many people > talk this way with the implicit convention that "evaluate" means "DoIt". > > So first, does anyone have a good way to compose sentences using "DoIt". > Second, how evil would it be to change the menus from "DoIt" to "Evaluate" > and so avoid the implicit convention. > > cheers -ben > > >
