On Thu, 30 Dec 2010, John McIntosh wrote:
Well the question as pointed out was does this vm support weak object
finalization? and since all closure vm support finalization, then
asking the question was mute, so it was ditched. Sophie from the 2003
era had to ask.
The need for the check it outdated, but the method is still sent by
external packages. With proper deprecation policy the method would be
still available. It would simply return true and raise a deprecation
warning.
Levente
On 12/30/10, Schwab,Wilhelm K <[email protected]> wrote:
Hopefully that can eventually be said as "backward compatibility with good
stuff is a priority for Pharo." Moving targets are perhaps best left
moving for now.
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(or so) which is unrelated. The method was removed during a "cleanup". And
as you know, backwards compatibility is not a priority for Pharo.
Levente
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