[squeak-dev] Re: $- in binary selectors

Nicolas Cellier nicolas.cellier.aka.nice at gmail.com
Thu Feb 25 01:06:49 UTC 2010


2010/2/25 Andreas Raab <andreas.raab at gmx.de>:
> Nicolas Cellier wrote:
>>
>> This would also mean breaking some packages.
>> One known workaround is to implement @- (main cause of error)
>

and the second one in trunk was //-2

> A big fat +1 on this idea. I really don't like breaking packages for no good
> reason and your list really gave me headaches (if a dozen packages inside
> the image are affected one can't help but wonder about external ones). How
> about implementing @- and signaling a deprecation warning as well?
>
> Cheers,
>  - Andreas
>
>

By now I very prudently insured backward compatibility in non
interactive mode...
But, yes, this would enable a smooth transition

Nicolas



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