[BUG] [FIX] duplicate "-- all --" category

Tim Rowledge tim at sumeru.stanford.edu
Fri Jul 26 17:20:09 UTC 2002


Scott Wallace <scott.wallace at squeakland.org> is claimed by the authorities to have written:

> However, your proposed change to 
> fileOutCategory:on:toFile:moveSource: breaks several other of its 
> senders, because several of them actually expect and require that "-- 
> all --" be specially handled to produce all the selectors implemented 
> by the class, and *not* be thought of as an actual, concrete category.
Now that sounds like seriously dodgy code. Why (ab)use the system that
way when you can find all the selectors implemented by a class in other
clean ways? Very strange.

tim

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