[etoys-dev] [etoys-notify] [JIRA] Created: (SQ-840) scriptnames that begin with "get" followed by an uppercase letter do not display properly in the viewer

Bert Freudenberg bert at freudenbergs.de
Tue Oct 5 02:14:08 EDT 2010


On 05.10.2010, at 05:25, K. K. Subramaniam wrote:

> On Thursday 30 Sep 2010 11:38:02 am Stephen Thomas (JIRA) wrote:
>> scriptnames that begin with "get" followed by an uppercase letter do not
>> display properly in the viewer
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>> 
>>                 Key: SQ-840
>>                 URL: http://tracker.squeakland.org/browse/SQ-840
> The pattern get<Var> and set<Var> used internally by Etoys to operate on 
> variables like x, y, heading etc.
> 
> Should this restriction be explicitly mentioned for user-written scripts or 
> should such scripts be handled specially in Etoys? What do others feel?
> 
> Subbu

Well, I think user script names should appear exactly as typed. Just like object names (which sometimes erroneously get translated).

Either we allow scripts to be named like this or not. But since currently we do, they should work as expected.

- Bert -




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