Yes, I agree. Now, we just need to find a way that works in practice, is simple enough and is also performant :).
Doru On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 9:59 AM, stepharo <steph...@free.fr> wrote: > What I wan to say is that when you know what you want you do not need to > navigate. > Object > + cmd click > + #ref > > is too long for me. > > > > Le 4/6/15 21:52, Tudor Girba a écrit : > > Hi Stef, > > What you are proposing is interesting. > > The criteria for the current language is to be minimalistic and > composable because it is supposed to work with any object, not just with > code, and the speed should be as good as possible in all cases. > > At this point, # means filter the existing list by the category. You do > not need #ref. It's enough #r. The nice thing about it is that it has clear > semantics, is cheap and composable through diving. I think this is a useful > operator that we should not remove. But, this does not mean that we cannot > play with other operators. > > We played also with other predicates, but the problem is that they are > slow, and we have limited bandwidth (we have only one process for all > computations). > > All in all, it would be cool to have experiments in this direction. > However, I would want to have simple semantics that can be explained > easily. We already have a few simple actions and people still do not use > them to their full potential. > > Cheers, > Doru > > > > On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 9:35 PM, stepharo <steph...@free.fr> wrote: > >> But why this is so complex? >> Why I cannot have >> >> #ref Object? >> >> or something like that. >> And why do we need #ref and not >> #r >> #m >> #s >> ? >> we could have >> #p >> #c >> >> I'm a super user and I want super user tools :) >> >> Stef >> >> Le 3/6/15 01:20, Tudor Girba a écrit : >> >> Hi, >> >> But, that is already possible: >> - Search for a class, like Object. >> - Dive in (Cmd+Right) >> - Type #ref >> >> And you will get the list of references to Object. >> >> Cheers, >> Doru >> >> >> >> >> On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 1:17 AM, Ben Coman <b...@openinworld.com> wrote: >> >>> I guess he means... Analyse > Class refs >>> and maybe wanting a syntax like... MyClass #ref >>> cheers -ben >>> >>> On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 4:12 AM, Tudor Girba <tu...@tudorgirba.com> >>> wrote: >>> > Hi, >>> > >>> > If you know the name of the spotter category, you can use the >>> #category, >>> > like here: >>> > >>> http://www.humane-assessment.com/blog/scoping-for-specific-search-category-in-gtspotter/ >>> > >>> > Is this what you are looking for? >>> > >>> > Cheers, >>> > Doru >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 10:08 PM, stepharo <steph...@free.fr> wrote: >>> >> >>> >> Hi guys >>> >> >>> >> I often know that I want to look not for the class, its package or >>> >> methods.... >>> >> but that I want to get the references to a class. >>> >> >>> >> Is there a syntax that I can use to instruct spotter about my needs? >>> >> >>> >> Stef >>> >> >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > -- >>> > www.tudorgirba.com >>> > >>> > "Every thing has its own flow" >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> www.tudorgirba.com >> >> "Every thing has its own flow" >> >> >> > > > -- > www.tudorgirba.com > > "Every thing has its own flow" > > > -- www.tudorgirba.com "Every thing has its own flow"