[squeak-dev] The Trunk: Collections-dtl.548.mcz

David T. Lewis lewis at mail.msen.com
Sat Dec 14 20:45:59 UTC 2013


On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 09:57:25AM -0600, Chris Muller wrote:
> 
> Dave, the only thing I don't like about this change is I thought we said we
> were going to migrate away from using the Dictionary API on Smalltalk.
>  This was back when Andreas and community came up with the idea of the
> wrapped 'globals'.
> 
> I think it would be better to use
> 
>     (Smalltalk classNamed: #Paragraph) ifNotNil: [ : classParagraph | ... ]
> 
> otherwise we can never find all the places where we try to do logical
> access to class.
> 

Thanks, I had forgotten about this. I will use this idiom in the future.

Dave



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