On Apr 1, 2010, at 9:43 AM, Andreas Raab wrote:
> On 4/1/2010 12:12 AM, Marcus Denker wrote:
>>
>> On Apr 1, 2010, at 12:00 AM, Niko Schwarz wrote:
>>
>>> Hi, I just bumped into this. Probably this is intended somehow, but it
>>> does seem weird enough to ask …
>>>
>>> (Object>> #hash) asString class
>>>
>>> returns 'Text'.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> I think this is historical. Methods *used* to return Strings, and the
>> Browser highlighted the first line.
>>
>> Than, when the possibility to have "Rich text" kind of methods (with bold,
>> colors, links) added in Squeak,
>> this was "implemented" by the "do the smallest change possible, we will
>> rewrite everything anyway" strategy.
>>
>> Never clean up! Never Refactor!
>
> Wow, Marcus. Your hostility towards Squeak is seriously amazing.
It's not hostility. Not at all. It's my *love* for Squeak that was/is the
problem. I could just not do nothing, *because*
I loved it so much... my mistake.
> Even more so since CompiledMethod>>asString DOES NOT EXIST in Squeak.
So then I was wrong with this analysis... but on the big picture, it is true.
And you know it.
Marcus
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Marcus Denker -- http://www.marcusdenker.de
INRIA Lille -- Nord Europe. Team RMoD.
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