Re: [Pharo-dev] immediateByteSubclass: ?

[Benoit St-Jean via Pharo-dev]

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If that's of any help, I was able to track it back to Squeak 5.0 and it had no 
sender in that version too!  The author's initials are eem.
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      From: Clément Bera <bera.clem...@gmail.com>
 To: Pharo Development List <pharo-dev@lists.pharo.org> 
 Sent: Friday, May 12, 2017 1:40 PM
 Subject: Re: [Pharo-dev] immediateByteSubclass: ?
   
This one looks strange and seems indeed to be dead code. 
Maybe it was an attempt to make a specific class definition keyword for 
CompiledMethod / CompiledCode / CompiledBlock. Right now there is a specific 
case in the code somewhere to use the specific compiledCode layout for those 3 
classes instead of the byte layout which is normally used for the keyword 
variableByteSubclass: that those 3 classes use.
I am not sure immediateByteSubclass: makes sense though. I would rather have 
compiledCodeSubclass, variablePointerAndByteSubclass or something like that.
On Fri, May 12, 2017 at 5:39 PM, Stephane Ducasse <stepharo.s...@gmail.com> 
wrote:

Hi 
with guille we are working on a class parser and our game is to make sure that 
we can parse all the crazy class definitions among which 
variableWordSubclass:ephemeronSubclass:weakSubclass:variableByteSubclass:variableSubclass:immediateSubclass:
 subclass: aSubclassSymbol  layout:
And we found this method definition and it has no senders and we wonder if it 
is just plain deadcode?
immediateByteSubclass: className instanceVariableNames: instvarNames 
classVariableNames: classVarNames package: package "Added to allow for a 
simplified subclass creation experience. "
 ^ self immediateSubclass: className instanceVariableNames: instvarNames 
classVariableNames: classVarNames package: package
S & G



   

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