Yes I was implying anything else. On Jan 13, 2010, at 8:47 AM, Schwab,Wilhelm K wrote:
> Stef, > > Agreed - Object is not a good home for methods that clearly have no place > there. I'm not excusing the poor practice, but I _think_ I understand how it > came about. > > Bill > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Stéphane > Ducasse > Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 2:33 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Pharo-project] I cannot believe that Browser is relying on > Object>>initialExtent > > :) > > I really think that putting a method in object just because may be at one > point a wrong object may receive a message should be avoided. Just already > puting initialExtent into CodeHolder fixes some use cases.... > >> Stef, >> >> And you were ready to give up on Pharo... :) > > :) > Now I start to have fun and I feel that the board is moving and ready for > several turn around the earth (funny for a lighthouse). > >> A lot of Squeak code looks like it was written w/o thought of exceptions. >> There is probably good reason for that, in that much of it comes from before >> the days of structured exception handling, weak collections, etc. In >> fairness, having a browser, or worse yet a debugger, quit over a bad >> receiver problem can turn ugly. By putting things in Object, those types of >> bugs would be largely avoided. I'm not saying it is a good way to work, but >> it is wide spread in Squeak. >> >> Bill >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] >> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of >> Stéphane Ducasse >> Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 4:36 PM >> To: [email protected] Development >> Subject: [Pharo-project] I cannot believe that Browser is relying on >> Object>>initialExtent >> >> argh....... >> May be not putting everything in Object would help. >> >> Stef >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Pharo-project mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Pharo-project mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project > > > _______________________________________________ > Pharo-project mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project > > _______________________________________________ > Pharo-project mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
