[squeak-dev] [Meta] Boolean#asBit discussion. What just happened here?

Nicolas Cellier nicolas.cellier.aka.nice at gmail.com
Sat Dec 5 22:40:35 UTC 2009


2009/12/5 David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com>:
> On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 01:41:31PM -0800, Jerome Peace wrote:
>>
>> The original post surprised and confused me. Squeak (and Etoys)
>> has had a #asBit message since 2004 (ajh 7/1/2004 timestamp).
>>
>> The response to the post was amazing. Very knowledgeable squeak
>> guru's seriously discussing if it should be added as if it weren't there.
>
> Well that's pretty funny actually. I think I'll bring the topic up
> again next April 1 ;)
>
> FWIW, the #asBit method is miscategorized in "printing", and there
> are no senders in the trunk image except for a unit test.
>
> So I brought up a SelectorBrowser and entered "true . 1", with the
> result "no single method does that function". Is this a bug?
>
> Dave
>
>

MethodFinder only discovers messages that it references...
If it does not reference asBit (see senders) then it cannot discover asBit.

Nicolas



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