On Sep 29, 2010, at 6:49 PM, Nicolas Cellier wrote:

> 2010/9/29 Henrik Johansen <[email protected]>:
>> Uhm, this method (and many others in the extensions-category) have been 
>> present in their expected-by-Alien form in Pharo since at least 1.0
>> 
>> Probably a better idea to separate the Alien-"Core" into two packages, one 
>> which is actually needed, and one which you only need to load in really old 
>> Squeak/Cuis images in order to have it work.
>> In which case you probably won't have method trailers either, and generate: 
>> #(0 0 0 0) is the proper extension.
>> 
> 
> CompiledMethodTrailers default or mysterious #(0 0 0 0) codes both are
> mostly unnecessary.
> If I want default behaviour, why should I bother to tell what this
> default is exactly ?
> Let just call #generate, and obfuscate those details.
> Squeak Pharo Cuis will handle these better than us (didn't verify
> Cuis, but quite sure Squeak/Pharo already implement generate).
> 

I added #generate in 3.9 and refactored everything to use it. But the closure 
code un-did a lot of
these as it was coming from an older version (3.7 or 3.8 was the basis of 
Croquet, I think).
        
        Marcus


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Marcus Denker  -- http://www.marcusdenker.de
INRIA Lille -- Nord Europe. Team RMoD.


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