+1 On Jul 8, 2009, at 11:57 PM, Michael Roberts wrote:
> 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 _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list Pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
