On Jun 24, 2013, at 6:59 PM, Camillo Bruni <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On 2013-06-24, at 18:55, Stéphane Ducasse <[email protected]> wrote: > >> the isBlah is not optimal now it is just there and we cannot rewrite >> everything. >> I still think that is: is a nice way to kill some of the isPlague in Object. > > I still don't see what you solve, and the idea to use symbols for #is: is also > wrong, for me that's going back to string-based programming. well, that's basically my argument agains #is: IMO is also an important performance issue in many cases, because is replacing a simple send with a string comparison and that can provoke slowdowns in some places (no idea where, this is just theoretical :)... Of course, as "pharo designers" we should be careful on not overpopulate Object with isBlah methods... but sometimes they are needed :) TL;DR: I agree with Camillo :) > > anyway, this topic has been discussed with enough hot air so far and no > progress, > which means it is absolutely not important. there are more urgent things to > done...
