[squeak-dev] Utilities' symbol mangling methods

Louis LaBrunda Lou at Keystone-Software.com
Mon Dec 2 22:11:38 UTC 2013


Hi Chris,

On Mon, 2 Dec 2013 14:52:59 -0600, Chris Muller <asqueaker at gmail.com>
wrote:

>It should be on Symbol, not String, because we're talking about method
>selectors, which are always Symbols.

I'm more familiar with VA Smalltalk than Squeak but I think Symbol is a sub
class of String in both.  As such the method should be on String so it
would work when sent to a String or a Symbol as Frank's example "'foo'
asSetterSelector" requires.

Lou
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