[KCP] ?? ClassDescription>>classVersion

Stephane Ducasse ducasse at iam.unibe.ch
Fri Jun 27 21:54:22 UTC 2003


Ok I will then add that into the method comments. !!!

Stef


On Friday, June 27, 2003, at 11:47 PM, Ned Konz wrote:

> What this does is allows you to distinguish between class versions
> when the shape of the class hasn't changed (when there's no change in
> the instVar names).
>
> In the conversion methods you usually can tell by the inst var names
> what old version you have. In a few cases, though, the same inst var
> names were kept but their interpretation changed (like in the
> layoutFrame).
>
> By changing the class version when you keep the same instVars you can
> warn older and newer images that they have to convert.



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