On Thu, 10 Feb 2011, David T. Lewis wrote:

> We had a good deal of discussion earlier about adding Object>>is:
> with an inconclusive outcome:
>  http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2010-April/148501.html
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> Igor's original proposal is:
>  http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2009-June/136793.html
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> I have been tinkering around with Juan's SimpleMorphic in hopes of
> getting it running in Squeak alongside MVC and Morphic, and it would
> be convenient to have the default implementation of #is: in the image
> so I don't have to put it in a package override.
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> Any strong objections?

I agree with Stéphane and Colin, we shouldn't add this method. I think 
adding Object >> #is: alone won't help you much anyway.

IMHO the following alternative solutions are better for integrating 
SimpleMorphic, especially the first one:
1) use #is* instead of #is: *. This should work since there are only 26 
implementors of #is: in Cuis. Almost all of them behave this way. The 
only exception is #ShoutEnabled, but Cuis has a different Shout 
implementation than Squeak, so you'll have to use the Squeak counterpart 
of that anyway.
2) add the #is: methods as extension methods, maybe in a separate 
compatibility package


Levente

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