> On 09 Nov 2015, at 09:29, Thierry Goubier <[email protected]> wrote:
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> 2015-11-09 13:05 GMT+01:00 Sean P. DeNigris <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>>:
> Ben Coman wrote
> > But Class has an instance variable 'name',
> > and Class subclasses --> {ProtoObject class}
>
> He he, of course. Thanks for the clarification!
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> Ben Coman wrote
> > should that instance variable and accessors be renamed to 'classname'?
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> YES to a rename! Let's remove all mysterious gotchas for newbies (and me ha
> ha). This is an obscure and scary bug, because it prevents all operations on
> the package, so one can not even commit or file out the package.
>
> Are you sure it would eliminate the gotcha? Can't you trigger it again with
> self classname: 1?
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> I'd feel a bit safer with some defensive programming (an assert: in
> class>>#name?). And I like the elegance of AClass name.
>
Yes, I feel the same. We should check for these cases but we should not make
the APIs horrible.
Marcus
