Question about change set 5051u62, regarding #classComment:
Nevin Pratt
nevin at smalltalkpro.com
Sun Dec 22 22:39:03 UTC 2002
In change set 5051u62, the implementation of
ClassDescription>>classComment: was changed from:
classComment: aString
^ self classComment: aString stamp: '<historical>'
to
classComment: aString
aString isEmptyOrNil
ifFalse: [self error: 'class comment set without stamp'].
^ self classComment: '' stamp: 'ignored'
This change effectively breaks Squeak from being able to file in
VisualWorks 3.0 chunk format fileins. I have found the interoperability
for fileins between VW and Squeak to be very useful. In fact, my Squeak
GLORP port just uses the VW GLORP filein directly. But, this change
broke that ability.
So, what was the rationale for making that change in Squeak? Is there
any chance we can get it set back to what it was?
Nevin
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