Calling things by their name.

Alan Kay Alan.Kay at disney.com
Mon Dec 13 18:52:29 UTC 1999


Sebastien --

What you suggest is in fact the way Squeak code is written. What happened
to you is that the Squeak sources file is not present and Squeak is thus
decompiling the byte codes with dummy paramater names.

Cheers,

Alan

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At 9:41 AM -0800 12/13/99, Sebastien Thoos wrote:
>Hello,
>
>A question ....
>
>Why giving bizare names to parameters,
>when I say bizare I mean t1, t2, t3.
>
>It would be much more readable and make more
>sense to have a method called, for example:
>
>put: anObject at: aPosition
>
>I think we still can change things...
>
>Sébastien.





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