ok well the context wasn't clear to be honest. Best thing to do is to create an issue on the tracker and try and describe a test case for invoking the problem. This is in preference to just patching code that doesn't look right.
thanks, Mike 2009/7/8 Schwab,Wilhelm K <bsch...@anest.ufl.edu>: > It certainly is not a generally applicable method for Dictionary (not > all/most keys will not understand #beginsWith:), but for some senders, it > might make sense, as it (I think) does for SystemDictionary. It would > bother me less as a loose method packaged as part of something that "needs" > it, but I would be inclined to deprecate/clean it if it is intended as part > of the collection protocol. Clients/senders could always define something > like #dictionary:hasKeyBeginningWith:. > > One of the great things about Smalltalk is the ability to add methods to > system classes. This is probably not the best use of that freedom. Has > this been of _any_ help? :) > > Bill > > > ________________________________ > From: pharo-project-boun...@lists.gforge.inria.fr > [mailto:pharo-project-boun...@lists.gforge.inria.fr] On Behalf Of David > Goehrig > Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2009 12:33 PM > To: Pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr > Subject: Re: [Pharo-project] doing bad things to Dictionaries. > > On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 1:06 PM, Michael Roberts <m...@mjr104.co.uk> wrote: >> >> Why do you assume all keys of dictionarys understand beginsWith: ? > > I don't. Someone else did. I just added a nil check to the code. There's > probably bigger issues with this code. > Dave > > -- > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- http://blog.dloh.org/ > > _______________________________________________ > Pharo-project mailing list > Pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr > http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project > _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list Pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
