[Seaside-dev] Seeking comments on small (?) change to WAComponent

Randal L. Schwartz merlyn at stonehenge.com
Thu Feb 5 17:19:29 UTC 2009


>>>>> "James" == James Foster <Smalltalk at JGFoster.net> writes:

James> renderContentOn: html

James> 	canvas := html.
James> 	self renderContent.
James> 	canvas := nil.		"to allow GC"

In fact, to be very clever, you could do this:

renderContentOn: aCanvas

   html := aCanvas. "inst var"
   self renderContent.
   html := nil.

And now all of your previous html-ful methods still work... just
remove the parameter. :)

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