On 25 June 2013 13:29, Esteban Lorenzano <[email protected]> wrote: > I really cannot believe that you can consider > > is: #string > > better programing than > > isString > > no matter the implementation, and no matter if you can still found senders of > #string... string programming (or symbol programing) is just bad, bad, bad. > Is so bad that is axiomatic... I cannot even explain why... :) >
you are highly subjective here. :) given two expressions: object isString and object is: #string to me they are equal in their beautiness or ugliness, if you like. > and that just because we do not like to have 20 methods (or whatever the > number) isBlah in object? > > sorry, I completely disagree with the idea. > > now, I agree that some of the "is" methods should be removed, but that is a > complete different discussion :) > right. but that was the proposal to remove them first (by replacing with #is:) and then gradually deal with them later (but already having cleaned Object protocol). > Esteban > -- Best regards, Igor Stasenko.
