On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 7:35 AM, Igor Stasenko <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 27 January 2017 at 01:30, Ben Coman <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 6:02 AM, stepharong <[email protected]> wrote: >> > On Thu, 26 Jan 2017 20:38:49 +0100, Torsten Bergmann <[email protected]> >> > wrote: >> > >> >> stepharong wrote: >> >>> >> >>> can we rename this selector? >> >>> asMethodConst should be at least be renamed to asConstantMethod >> >> >> >> >> >> When you use "as {something}" then "something" depicts the result of >> >> the >> >> conversion message sent to an object. >> >> >> >> Like in #asNumber or #asString which shows to what the receiver will be >> >> converted. >> > >> > >> > Yes I thought that it was doing that. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> My understanding is that in the case discussed the receiver object is >> >> NOT converted to a constant unchangeable method, so #asConstantMethod >> >> would >> >> not fit as a selector. >> >> >> >> Instead it is sent to an object that afterwards is a constant within a >> >> method >> >> (so it will not be evaluated later at runtime again) so IMHO >> >> #asMethodConstant >> >> instead of #asMethodConst would be better. >> > >> > >> > I do not understand any of them. >> >> method constant = constant of a method
>> constant method = method that does not change >> > are you sure? pretty sure. 'method' is the subject. 'constant' is the adjective that modifies the subject. Its a bit hard to explain that intrinsic feeling of what is right, but maybe.... If the adjective follows the subject its usually separated by little joining words. http://www.grammar-monster.com/glossary/adjective_definition.htm > maybe it is > constant method = method that returns constant? For me this does not compute. But I understand rules differ in other languages and its hard to avoid subtle influences from your primary language. And still, it could just be my personal bias. So if you & Stef find it ambiguous, it may be for others and we should aim to avoid that. cheers -ben > > apparently, that's why 'constant' term doesn't fits there, because there's > so many confusion about it. what are the constant in dynamic system, after > all?
