[squeak-dev] The Trunk: Collections-eem.792.mcz
Tobias Pape
Das.Linux at gmx.de
Thu May 3 18:24:33 UTC 2018
> On 03.05.2018, at 20:00, Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Thu, May 3, 2018 at 10:54 AM, Tobias Pape <Das.Linux at gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi Eliot
> > On 03.05.2018, at 19:34, Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > This is a workhorse method
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> Just a question for clarification, what is a workhorse method?
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> Workhorse, noun
> - a horse used for work on a farm.
> - a person or machine that dependably performs hard work over a long period of time: "he was a workhorse of an actor, often appearing in as many as forty plays in a year".
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Ok, so I got that right.
I saw it as exactly the opposite: only used rarely, and in non-performance-critical parts, such as Clipboard
d o . O b
I am puzzled.
-t
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> _,,,^..^,,,_
> best, Eliot
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