On 19 May 2014 19:53, Sean P. DeNigris <sean at clipperadams.com> wrote:
> I brought this up on Pharo Dev
> (http://forum.world.st/Phexample-API-Change-Proposal-was-Phexample-Image-Destroying-Bug-td4755787.html#a4756229)
> and wanted to re-post here before committing my fix, since I assume that
> Squeak and Pharo make up the Phexample user base...
>
> MAJOR API CHANGE:
> - change matcher #= to #equal: e.g. "1 should = 1" would now be written "1
> should equal: 1"
> - update all code to use new API
>
> Motivation: the #= magic made it impossible to store matchers in
> dictionaries, and #hash was implemented to signal an error explaining as
> much. Unfortunately, #= and #hash are deeply ingrained Smalltalk concepts,
> and are assumed to work as expected. In Pharo 3.0, the debugger tried to put
> matchers in a dictionary, causing an infinite error loop whenever a matcher
> failed.
>
> Let me know if you have any suggestions/objections/whatever.

Thanks for the notification, Sean. The change looks good!

frank