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Date:Mon Jun 26 14:17:11 1993 
Subject:Re: Class Hierarchy Browser? 
From:Eric Peterson 
Volume-ID:930626.02 

>>>>> On Fri, 25 Jun 1993 00:25:07 GMT, nelsonh@spot.Colorado.EDU (NELSON HARRY J) said:
   NELSON> Nntp-Posting-Host: spot.colorado.edu

   NELSON> I found nothing on this in the FAQ, so I'm putting it out
   NELSON> to the net...

   NELSON> We're starting a project in Allegro CL\PC since Smalltalk
   NELSON> doesn't give us the flexibility we need.  I couldn't find
   NELSON> anything in the documentation or elsewhere about a neat way
   NELSON> to organize classes like the Class Hierarchy Browser does
   NELSON> in Smalltalk.  Is there anything out there that can do the
   NELSON> job?

   I can't speak from experience how well Smalltalk does the job, but
If you use their graphical browser by calling
(inspect (find-class 'class-in-question))

you can rather easily navigate the class meta-object inheritance tree.
I'm not a CL\PC expert, so maybe I'm not aware of a tool for showing a
graphical hierarchy, but I usually find that simple (inspect)
navigation of meta-objects tells me what I need to know.  They do have
a reasonably full implementation of the AMOP MOP.

   I hope that helps.

-Eric

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