[squeak-dev] Utilities' symbol mangling methods

Bert Freudenberg bert at freudenbergs.de
Mon Dec 2 10:33:25 UTC 2013


On 2013-12-02, at 11:22, Frank Shearar <frank.shearar at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 2 December 2013 10:16, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de> wrote:
>> 
>> Converting between setters and getters seems generally useful to me, so even if at the moment it may be only used in Etoys, I'd not make it an Etoys-specific extension.
> 
> Since we ship Etoys in a standard Squeak image, how about we keep
> these methods in Etoys until we do start mangling selectors elsewhere?
> In other words, pull the methods out on demand? (I have no objections
> to them moving out of Etoys if they do prove to be generally useful.)
> 
> frank

I'm fine either way. However, it seems to me a third-party package would rather roll their own than depending on Etoys-stuff, no? Depending on System is fine, as is (even more so) on Collections, but depending on Etoys, not so much. 

- Bert -



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