gtPresentation - #display:?

In experimenting with creating a custom inspector for my domain object, I came across the following intriguing method:

    Float>>#gtInspectorFloatIn: composite
        <gtInspectorPresentationOrder: 30>
        ^ composite table
                title: 'Float';
                display: [
                        ...
                        {'binary' -> self binaryLiteralString.
                        'significand' -> self significand.
                        'exponent' -> self exponent} ];
                column: 'Key' evaluated: #key;
                column: 'Value' evaluated: #value;
                send: #value

While it was easy enough to adapt this to my needs, I found the #display: and #send: sends quite strange. #display: seems like a strange API - like we're using an object designed to do something other than inspect objects; and I wasn't sure what exactly #send: did, my presentation seemed to function the same way with or without it...

Sean P. DeNigris wrote

#display: seems like a strange API

Besides being odd, #display-ing an array of associations doesn't quite "do the right thing". When a row is clicked in a collection inspector, the next playground pane opens on the value, but in this case, the next pane opens on the fieldName->value association!

Sean P. DeNigris wrote

the next pane opens on the fieldName->value association!

Never mind... ha ha... I discovered what #send: does ;)

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