About at: and basicAt difference

Stephane Ducasse ducasse at iam.unibe.ch
Mon Jan 14 11:59:53 UTC 2002


on 1/13/02 6:55 PM, Lex Spoon at lex at cc.gatech.edu wrote:

> 
> 
>> I should have said that I knew that.
>> 
>> My point was that the text following the primitives is different in
>> Object>>at: and Object>>basicAt: while they both call the same primitive.
> 
> True, it would be nice if the comment made the distinction.  Would you
> like to post a changeset?  :)
> 
> Also, puritanically, at: should probably call basicAt: instead of doing
> the primitive itself.  That will probably impact performance a little,
> but then again, calling #at: for one item at a time is likely to be slow
> anyway.
> 
> 
> -Lex
> 
> 


In fact I was confused and forgot that the code after the primitive was the
code executed when the primitive failed so it could be different




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