This is because Smalltalk used to be a God class, which knows about everything. And some methods indeed making no sense :)
On 21 August 2011 19:16, Alexandre Bergel <[email protected]> wrote: > The garbage collection is done in #bytesLeftString > #bytesLeftString is not really a good name in that respect. > > Alexandre > > On 21 Aug 2011, at 17:56, Noury Bouraqadi wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Is this method should be renamed or is the GC call missing? >> >> garbageCollectAndReport >> "Do a garbage collection, and report results to the user." >> >> "SmalltalkImage current garbageCollectAndReport" >> >> self inform: self bytesLeftString >> >> >> Noury from ESUG @ Edinburgh :-) >> http://car.mines-douai.fr/noury >> -- >> -19èmes Journées Francophones sur les Systèmes Multi-Agents (JFSMA’11) >> http://www.univ-valenciennes.fr/congres/jfsma2011/ >> 17-19 Octobre 2011, Valenciennes, France >> >> -5th International Conference on Smalltalk Technologies >> http://www.fast.org.ar >> November 3th - 5th, 2011 Universidad Nacional de Quilmes (Argentina) >> >> >> >> >> > > -- > _,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;: > Alexandre Bergel http://www.bergel.eu > ^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;. > > > > > > > -- Best regards, Igor Stasenko AKA sig.
