what does find users of variable mean?

[Wenjie Wu]

When I right-click on a variable and select 'find users of this block', then I will get all the variable accessors. Is this a bug?

For variables, should 'find users of this block' be hidden?

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[Wenjie Wu]

@Bernat Romagosa

[Turgut Guneysu]

Hi Wenjie

this is a brand new feature Bernat provided. It is used to help debug programs by finding where in the code a variable is used.

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[Wenjie Wu]

Hi @Turgut Guneysu Thank you for your reply.

I love this powerful new feature, one of the menus seems to have problems working with variables.

[Bernat Romagosa]

Hi, Wenjie.

You’re right that this is sort of a misfeature. The variable block is the same operator regardless of which variable it holds, that’s why finding its users finds all variable reporters in the project. I think we may want to hide this option for variable reporters, unless there is a use case for finding all variable reporters in a project, which I can’t think of right now…

[Wenjie Wu]

I also think there seems to be no clear use case.
For find variables, the find variable accessors and find variable modifiers are perfectly adequate.

[John Maloney]

We might have find users on a variable block just do find variable accessors. Or hide that option, as Bernat suggests.

[Wenjie Wu]

Or hide that option, as Bernat suggests.

I prefer this approach.

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[Bernat Romagosa]

Fixed in 6386839 :)