[Newbies] Re: Beginners Digest, Vol 24, Issue 17

2008-04-11 Thread Dr Keith A. Morneau
Let me clarify my last post. I used Homebase to start out and was able to load Tweak successfully. I tried to load Magma and got the error above in the Homebase image. I am thinking about just using Morphic for now since it appears it works with Magma pretty well and for my purpose will do the

Re: [Newbies] Re: Beginners Digest, Vol 24, Issue 17

2008-04-11 Thread Rob Rothwell
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 8:56 AM, Dr Keith A. Morneau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Let me clarify my last post. I used Homebase to start out and was able to load Tweak successfully. I tried to load Magma and got the error above in the Homebase image. I am thinking about just using Morphic for now

Re: [Newbies] Re: Beginners Digest, Vol 24, Issue 17

2008-04-11 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 11.04.2008, at 05:56, Dr Keith A. Morneau wrote: Let me clarify my last post. I used Homebase to start out and was able to load Tweak successfully. I tried to load Magma and got the error above in the Homebase image. Which error above? Please cite the relevant conversation when replying.

[Newbies] Re: Magma and Tweak

2008-04-11 Thread Dr Keith A. Morneau
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 11:00 AM, Bert Freudenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11.04.2008, at 05:56, Dr Keith A. Morneau wrote: Let me clarify my last post. I used Homebase to start out and was able to load Tweak successfully. I tried to load Magma and got the error above in the Homebase

Re: [Newbies] Re: Magma and Tweak

2008-04-11 Thread Bert Freudenberg
Sorry, when I try to load Magma, I get the following syntax error: Behavior *ma base additions maFirstCommentOrNilAt: That is only half of a syntax error. A common problem is that croquet by default disallows _ for assignment, it only accepts :=. Magma may still use _. As mentioned at in

[Newbies] sending #respondsTo:

2008-04-11 Thread itsme213
Is it considered bad practice to use #respondsTo:? If so, why? Lint flags it as a questionable message. Thanks - Sophie ___ Beginners mailing list Beginners@lists.squeakfoundation.org http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/beginners

Re: [Newbies] sending #respondsTo:

2008-04-11 Thread David Mitchell
Responds to certainly has its place, but you want to favor polymorphism first. Say you need to move some animals around but some of the animals are fish and some are birds. You might have client code that looks like this (but it would be bad) anAnimal respondsTo: #swim ifTrue: [anAnimal swim]