Shadowed variables [was: Re: animated gifs]

Jimmie Houchin jhouchin at cableone.net
Wed Feb 23 15:23:44 UTC 2005


Doug Way wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 14:10:18 -0800, "Dan Ingalls" <Dan at SqueakLand.org>
> said:
[snip]
>>
>>Just a note about QA of releases.  In the "old days", shadowing was
>>considered an error, and one of the pre-release procedures was to
>>recompile the whole system.  Thus, this bug would have been caught. 
> 
> I think we did lose track of a few of the pre-release QA procedures over
> the years that Squeak Central used to perform.

Are all those pre-release QA procedures known and understood by the 
community or at least those involved in the current release process?

Just curious. It would be ashamed to allow good QA practices slip away.

Maybe those involved in the new processes can establish what our new or 
current best practices are with regard to pre-release QA.

Just a thought.

Jimmie



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