Can this be dealt with by Quality Assistant?  Special rules when in a
particular group of classes? i.e. BaselineXXXXX

cheers -ben

On Mon, Nov 6, 2017 at 10:43 PM, Dale Henrichs <
[email protected]> wrote:

> ...also note that I have seen a number of baselines where symbols are used
> in places where Strings are required ... of course with Pharo's
> implementation of Symbol it is not practical to use asString nor type
> checks - things that are not necessary in other Smalltalk implementations
> ... In Metacello the only "legal" place to use a Symbol is for a symbolic
> version ...
>
> Of course this is really only an issue for cross platform projects and the
> issue shows up as a problem real fast ... it's just painful for the
> uninitiated to debug ...
>
> Dale
>
>
>
> On 11/6/17 1:51 AM, stephan wrote:
>
>> On 05-11-17 22:05, Stephane Ducasse wrote:
>>
>>> I was working in cleaning the users of asLayoutFrame and when I commit I
>>> see
>>>
>>> - #category : 'Morphic-Base-Layouts'
>>> + #category : #Morphic-Base-Layouts
>>>
>>> but #category : #Morphic-Base-Layouts
>>> is not a valid symbol.
>>>
>>
>> In Metacello we use the quoted symbol form exactly because different
>> smalltalks have different ideas of what a valid symbol is.
>>
>> Stephan
>>
>>
>>
>>
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