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

[James Foster]

On Feb 5, 2009, at 9:19 AM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:

>>>>>> "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. :)

I like it! Of course, this depends on your dialect of Smalltalk. I  
believe that some might object to adding an instance variable that  
overlaps an existing method argument or temp.

James

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