Not a duplicate, at least not of 17798.
> Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2016 at 4:35 PM
> From: monty <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Pharo-dev] feedback from yet another student presentation
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> > Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2016 at 4:14 PM
> > From: "Alexandre Bergel" <[email protected]>
> > To: "Pharo Development List" <[email protected]>
> > Subject: Re: [Pharo-dev] feedback from yet another student presentation
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> > > - it was reallllly hard to register a project on smalltalkhub just after
> > > we created an account.
> > > This already happened to me during the open-devs.
> > > So this is a really big show stopper for the mooc. Because people will
> > > gave up just after the first lecture :(
> >
> > The situation will be much easier I hope once git is well supported…
> >
> > > - we should really rename Class>>name: into setClassName:
> > > students were manipulating object with name such as state of state
> > > machine and one wrote
> > >
> > > State name: 'A' and just rename the class and broke the system.
> >
> > I have just created an issue:
> > https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/17798/Rename-Class-name-into-setClassName
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> Marked as a duplicate of:
> https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/7241/Object-name-should-best-be-removed
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> This has been an issue for years.
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> Leave it as-is and anyone defining a class-side name: constructor risks
> breaking any tooling that still relies on name: renaming a class. Use named:
> (much more common in the image) instead and nothing will break, but now
> anyone that mistypes the selector as name: (no "d") accidentally renames the
> class, and to a string instead of a symbol.
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> > Alexandre
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> > Alexandre Bergel http://www.bergel.eu
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