deficience in Squeak

Stephen Pair stephen at pairhome.net
Sat Nov 22 01:44:07 UTC 2003


Peter van Rooijen wrote:

> This type of thing is simply not very standardized across dialects.
>
>>What is more,  if a new
>>method contains=
>> unknown methods, which will be defined in the future,
>>then it=
>> can not be accepted. I think it is not convinient for
>>developing=
>> application.
>>    
>>
>
>You can still accept anyway. But it's a drag that the system often tries to
>help so intrusively. This is one of the things I like least in Squeak.
>  
>

That's actually one of the features of Squeak I really like...it
frequently saves me from mis-spelled selectors. In other dialects, I
often don't find such mis-spellings until I start testing my code.

- Stephen





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