> ... because using method is old school and pragma's are new school ;) (Java
> annotations anyone)
>
> Arguably using pragma's is cleaner approach to specify orthogonal concerns
> but without full IDE support (refactorings etc to minimize unmaintained
> pragma's) I would argue for just using a method and package based on
> convention.
> At the end of the day both solutions will work but if we are going to
> aggregate all the MethodFinder acceptable selectors into a class method then
> we may as well drop the pragma...
Have a look at the help browser. It is slow because of global pragma queries.
Having a method Behavior>>finderApprovedMethods looks perfectly okay to me.
Cheers,
Alexandre
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> On 24 Jun 2011, at 3:41 PM, Stéphane Ducasse wrote:
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> Yes
> we were wondering with igor why using pragmas and that a simple list would be
> enough.
>
> Stef
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> On Jun 24, 2011, at 2:26 PM, Alexandre Bergel wrote:
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>> Why not something like
>>
>> Magnitude class>>finderApprovedMethods
>> ^ {#max: . #min: . #min:max: . #< . ... }
>>
>> It is shorter and less magic is involved here. It will also be probably
>> faster to do a query.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Alexandre
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>> On 24 Jun 2011, at 05:25, Damien Cassou wrote:
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>>> Currently MethodFinder uses a list of acceptable selectors to execute.
>>> This list of selectors is not maintained which results in a lot of
>>> selectors to exist only in this list as they have been removed in the
>>> system. I propose to use pragmas on classes to generate this list
>>> automatically.
>>>
>>> Here is an example
>>>
>>> Magnitude class>>finderApprovedMethods
>>> <finderApproveInstanceMethod: #max:>
>>> <finderApproveInstanceMethod: #min:>
>>> <finderApproveInstanceMethod: #min:max:>
>>> <finderApproveInstanceMethod: #< >
>>> <finderApproveInstanceMethod: #<= >
>>> <finderApproveInstanceMethod: #< >
>>> <finderApproveInstanceMethod: #<= >
>>> <finderApproveInstanceMethod: #between:and: >
>>>
>>> What do you think?
>>>
>>> --
>>> Damien Cassou
>>> http://damiencassou.seasidehosting.st
>>>
>>> "Lambdas are relegated to relative obscurity until Java makes them
>>> popular by not having them." James Iry
>>>
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