2010/3/6 Lukas Renggli <[email protected]>: >> Nicolas published a version for pharo and it would be really cool if you >> could help me >> http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=2115 > > What should I do? > > - I can update the RB so that it works the same way. >
Yes > - I can provide rewritten code for the complete core system that uses > ambiguous constructs like 1...@-2. > Compiler recompileAll will transcript the ambiguous constructs already. If you want, that would be useful to avoid spreading my initials everywhere (I hate spreading, at least when I add no value). > For the compile changes themselves I wouldn't throw a warning, not > even in interactive mode. Also I wouldn't add a setting, that just > causes troubles in many years ahead. > Agree about Preferences for accepting incompatible syntax : it is poisonous. This preference would be usefull only to load old packages, but risk to be abused to write non conforming code. Personnally, I want the warning. It's so easy to get bitten by ^x/-2... It would be good to have a Preference for the warning. Nicolas > Lukas > > -- > Lukas Renggli > http://www.lukas-renggli.ch > > _______________________________________________ > Pharo-project mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project > _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
