[squeak-dev] The Trunk: Tools-bf.383.mcz

Frank Shearar frank.shearar at gmail.com
Wed Oct 12 10:25:30 UTC 2011


On 12 October 2011 10:50, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de> wrote:
> On 12.10.2011, at 11:35, Frank Shearar <frank.shearar at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 11 October 2011 15:11,  <commits at source.squeak.org> wrote:
>>> Bert Freudenberg uploaded a new version of Tools to project The Trunk:
>>> http://source.squeak.org/trunk/Tools-bf.383.mcz
>>>
>>> ==================== Summary ====================
>>>
>>> Name: Tools-bf.383
>>> Author: bf
>>> Time: 11 October 2011, 4:11:42.987 pm
>>> UUID: c27c59ef-77c3-46c3-b24a-b0034efcd457
>>> Ancestors: Tools-eem.382
>>>
>>> VersionsBrowser: when reverting a method, put it in the previous category, too.
>>>
>>> =============== Diff against Tools-eem.382 ===============
>>
>> Nice! I ran into this the other day but wasn't online to report it,
>> and then forgot to!
>>
>> It's a pity the original code uses "cat" and "category" as variable
>> names. "oldCategory" might be a better name (for a separate commit)?
>>
>> frank
>
> The method argument is the current category. Renaming it could make this a little more clear, but since it's used in only one place near the top I didn't feel it was worth it. Also, the method signature would become even longer than it is now.

Yes - that's the more understandable of the two. It's just that
looking at the diff you see "cat" and "category", and even looking at
the assignment to cat isn't very informative without more reading. I
say this with my nitpicky hat on :)

frank



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