Hi Michael,

yes, I use #trigger: in my implementation. The existing event mechanism 
(by John Sarkela) that I use uses #triggerEvent:with: .

On Tuesday, Nov 4, 2003, at 16:27 Europe/Zurich, Michael Rueger wrote:

> Brent Pinkney wrote:
>
>> You are arguing that we should change the name of 
>> MessageNotUnderstood to MessageNotUnderstoodException or 
>> ExceptionMessageNotUnderstood. Surely by extension we chould change 
>> Integer to ClassInteger ans String to ClassString ?
>
> No, because an the integer class is still about integers, whereas the 
> ClassRenameEvent is an even, not a class rename.
>
>> Secondly, from an aeththesic perspective there is something elegant 
>> and colloqiual about
>>     [ x /y ] on: DivideByZero do: [ self inform: 'oops' ]
>> that is lost if we decend into _CODE_ **
>>     [ x /y ] on: ExceptionDivideByZero do: [ self inform: 'oops' ]
>
> Allow myself to differ here. If you read this aloud
>
> [ x /y ] on: DivideByZeroException do: [ self inform: 'oops' ]
>
> it speaks (small-talk) to you ;-)
> That's why it *is* important to be very careful with names, that's 
> where I definitely agree with you.
>
>>         self triggerEvent: #renameClass
>>             with: (RenameClass class: aClass newName: aNewClassName).
>
> The problem by leaving out the Event suffix is that you can't tell 
> whether RenameClass is the event or just the argument to an event 
> created in the triggerEvent method itself. In that sense the above 
> code is already duplicating semantics.
>
> self triggerEvent: (RenameClassEvent class: aClass newName: aClassName)
>
> or even
>
> self trigger: (RenameClassEvent class: aClass newName: aClassName)
>
> would avoid that.
>
> Just my non-native TC ;-)
>
>
> Michael
>
>
>
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