[Newbies] Unique class names?

2008-07-13 Thread Felix Dorner
Hi, so class names must be unique in the system? How do people organize things then? Do I just choose some funnky prefix and _hope_ that noone else chose the same one? Are there conventions? Is the Squeak community happy with this approach? Lots of small simple questions. Thanks for any

Re: [Newbies] Unique class names?

2008-07-13 Thread Bert Freudenberg
Am 13.07.2008 um 13:45 schrieb Felix Dorner: Hi, so class names must be unique in the system? Yes. How do people organize things then? Do I just choose some funnky prefix and _hope_ that noone else chose the same one? Yes. Are there conventions? A short (about 2 letter) prefix.

Re: [Newbies] Unique class names?

2008-07-13 Thread David Mitchell
so class names must be unique in the system? Yep. How do people organize things then? Do I just choose some funnky prefix and _hope_ that noone else chose the same one? Some do. Not a bad idea for frameworks. This can make code look ugly. The other approach is optimistic. Choose the best name

Re: [Newbies] interpreter (vers. 6502) cannot read image file ?

2008-07-13 Thread Milan Zimmermann
Thanks David, I agree it is likely corruption. It has not been compressed, but transfered via USB stick, I think it was unmounted safely but anyway, I'll take it on Monday to work to the Windows Squeak where it was created and confirm it does not load. If it does .. well we'll see Thanks

Re: [Newbies] separating app from platform-specific parts of image?

2008-07-13 Thread K. K. Subramaniam
On Saturday 12 Jul 2008 2:06:50 pm John Chandler wrote: OK, but if my image is for Mac OS X PPC, and the target machine is   Debian x86, will the image I copy to it even start up? Image files can be opened on any platform. Make sure that you get the *virtual machine* for the Debian x86. Install

[Newbies] Left-arrow for assignment

2008-07-13 Thread Dominic Espinosa
Hello, I've experimented with Squeak a bit, and have also seen the debate on the assignment symbols and how to handle the left-arrow, ':=', and underscore at http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/5751. However, I want to use the left-arrow in my code. Is this possible? It seems like translation from ':='