[squeak-dev] Emergency evaluator broken?

David T. Lewis lewis at mail.msen.com
Fri Dec 13 00:14:29 UTC 2013


On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 08:25:40PM +0000, Frank Shearar wrote:
> On 12 December 2013 20:18, Frank Shearar <frank.shearar at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 12 December 2013 20:17, Frank Shearar <frank.shearar at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On 12 December 2013 19:57, Chris Muller <asqueaker at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> Move Transcripter to ST80.
> >>>
> >>> Then check for presence of class named #Transcripter in
> >>> Object>>#primitiveError: to determine whether to present and accept that
> >>> option.
> >>
> >> ... and also get an emergency evaluator working in Morphic.
> >
> > I'll do the class moving, but I'm not tackling Morphic.
> 
> Or not, because moving the class is the wrong thing to do. Instead,
> the _right_ thing to do is to make a MorphicTranscripter and an
> St80Transcripter. The latter is just Transcripter with a new name, and
> the new Transcripter is an AppRegistry subclass, presumably in
> System-Applications. Morphic and ST80 then register their preferred
> Transcripter-protocol-fulfiller.

Eeek! Holy overengineering batman.

Hopefully Collections-dtl.548 will resolve the problem.

Note to self: Touching a method that carries the initials 'di' is a
fast path to public embarrassment. Not that I did not already know
this...

Dave



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