Hi raffael Ben is a contributor of Pharo and he takes care about steady improvement even at the level of comments. Every user of Pharo should have the same take because Pharo is our common wealth.
Stef On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 4:02 PM, Raffaello Giulietti < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi Ben, > > > On 2017-05-03 14:56, Ben Coman wrote: > >> Thanks for the follow up. Glad to hear its nothing intrinsic to Pharo. >> >> btw, Is there somewhere in the documentation or class/method comments >> that you believe this N-base situation should be spelled out better? >> >> > > Well, I wouldn't call the parameter of ExternalAddress>>byteAt:... methods > a "byteOffset", as offset invariably indicates a *difference* between > indices or addresses. Thus, I would for example expect an offset of 0 to > refer to the first byte, whether its index is 0 or 1. > > This is in contrast with the Smalltalk convention that <something>At: > selectors with numerical arguments usually mean a 1-based *index*. > > > > BTW, just for information, what is your role in the development of Pharo? > > > Greetings > Raffaello > >
