Hi andreas You could not resist.......
and you got trapped to my eyes :). http://images2.fanpop.com/images/photos/2800000/Wolf-Eating-wolves-2812984-400-299.jpg Stef PS: Marcus you are a bad guy, bad bad bad :) "Oh le vilain" (kid voice) >> >>> 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. Even more so > since CompiledMethod>>asString DOES NOT EXIST in Squeak. It's a Pharo method. > Of course, it's Squeak's fault that in Pharo, and Pharo only, > CompiledMethod>>asString returns a text. > >> Of course, like always, the "big rewrite from scratch" never happened. To >> the contrary, all the time more and >> more "do the smallest change possible" changes where introduced on top, up >> to the point that the whole system >> was just *bad*. > > So what does that mean given that the method has a stamp of 'stephane.ducasse > 8/9/2009 12:05'? > > Cheers, > - Andreas > > _______________________________________________ > 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
