[squeak-dev] Request for interactive selector correction preference

Stéphane Rollandin lecteur at zogotounga.net
Tue Jan 7 12:20:31 UTC 2014


Ok, should I implement this ? What is the best place for storing the 
preference inst var (if we use a pragma) ? Or should I add an entry to 
Preferences ?



>> I'm currently working a lot in workspaces, and using dynamically-generated
>> selectors in my code. This means that I have to close a lot of pop-up
>> windows telling me I'm using an unknown selector.
>>
>> Wouldn't it be a good idea to have a preference for turning off that
>> behavior ?
>
> Yes.
>
>> The thing happens right at the beginning in
>> Parser>>#correctSelector:wordIntervals:exprInterval:ifAbort:
>>
>> where we have:
>>
>>          "If we can't ask the user, assume that the keyword will be defined
>> later"
>>          self interactive ifFalse: [^proposedKeyword asSymbol].
>>
>> I would propose to make it
>>
>>          (self interactive or: [ "...some preference..." ])
>>                  ifFalse: [^proposedKeyword asSymbol].
>>
>> What do you think ?
>>
>> Stef



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