Re: [Pharo-users] [Pharo-dev] New book: Pharo with Style

2018-12-31 Thread Richard O'Keefe
I'm not sure that the advice on method comments is as good as it could be. Consider Point >> setX: xValue setY: yValue x := xValue. y := yValue It is pretty obvious what this does, and if I'm reading chapter 4 correctly the advice is that it doesn't need a comment. But it does: why DOESN'T

Re: [Pharo-users] [Pharo-dev] New book: Pharo with Style

2018-12-31 Thread Richard O'Keefe
On naming protocols: it would be nice to have clear guidance about when to use '-ion' and when to use '-ing'. In my own code I've been using '-ing' except for a few traditional categories like 'instance creation'. One reason for this was that I didn't want to keep on re-deciding "is it

Re: [Pharo-users] [ANN] P3 version 1.1

2018-12-31 Thread Ben Coman
On Mon, 31 Dec 2018 at 19:34, Sven Van Caekenberghe wrote: > Hi, > > I created a new release of P3, the modern, lean and mean PostgreSQL client > for Pharo. > > https://github.com/svenvc/P3 > > Version 1.1 contains the following changes: > > - added support for Postgres Extended Query protocol

Re: [Pharo-users] [Moose-dev] glamorous toolkit: v0.4.0

2018-12-31 Thread Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas
Hi Doru, On 29/12/18 15:50, Tudor Girba wrote: > Hi, > > Thanks for the link. For some strange reason, I do not see the linked email > in my inbox. It was also absent from the web archives of the Pharo mailing list and, as I'm not subscribed to Pharo-Dev I always get a warning about a rejected

Re: [Pharo-users] (no subject)

2018-12-31 Thread Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas
Konrad, On 31/12/18 8:59, Konrad Hinsen via Pharo-users wrote: > > Thanks to everyone who replied - the sum of the answers is actually a > lot more useful than each one individually, as each one points to a part > of the puzzle that Pharo is (for me, at least, after roughly one month > of use).

Re: [Pharo-users] (no subject)

2018-12-31 Thread Konrad Hinsen via Pharo-users
--- Begin Message --- Thanks to everyone who replied - the sum of the answers is actually a lot more useful than each one individually, as each one points to a part of the puzzle that Pharo is (for me, at least, after roughly one month of use). Ben Coman writes: > This may not be what you are

Re: [Pharo-users] rotating a morph through messaging

2018-12-31 Thread K K Subbu
On 31/12/18 1:54 AM, Steve Quezadas wrote: I am experimenting with pharo right now, particularly with Morphs. The weird thing is that some morphs can have a rotation halo and others do not. This has a "rotate halo": bar := EllipseMorph new. bar openInWorld. This does not: foo := Morph new.

[Pharo-users] [ANN] P3 version 1.1

2018-12-31 Thread Sven Van Caekenberghe
Hi, I created a new release of P3, the modern, lean and mean PostgreSQL client for Pharo. https://github.com/svenvc/P3 Version 1.1 contains the following changes: - added support for Postgres Extended Query protocol (P3PreparedStatement) (thx Jan @jvdsandt) - added support for reading array

Re: [Pharo-users] [Pharo-dev] New book: Pharo with Style

2018-12-31 Thread Benoit St-Jean via Pharo-users
--- Begin Message --- Besides, I forgot to add one comment : you should have guidelines for protocol naming.  It's not critical per se but I find it quite annoying to look for stuff in "enumerating" when it's been put in "printing" !  loll On 2018-12-31 03:51, Stephane Ducasse wrote: Thanks!