On 25 June 2013 10:28, Esteban Lorenzano <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 :) > yes, but please, do that, after you remove rest of isXXX methods in Object :)
> 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... > > -- Best regards, Igor Stasenko.
