[squeak-dev] Class MethodProperties no longer in Squeak 6.0a // SmartRefStream initKnownRenames ?

Tobias Pape Das.Linux at gmx.de
Wed May 23 10:16:40 UTC 2018


> On 23.05.2018, at 12:09, H. Hirzel <hannes.hirzel at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On 5/23/18, Tobias Pape <Das.Linux at gmx.de> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 23.05.2018, at 08:55, H. Hirzel <hannes.hirzel at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> [1] Attached is a screen shot of a search on the swiki
>>> http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/search?search=MethodProperties&casesensitive=false&and=true
>>> The search shows that the class MethodProperties was still in Squeak 5.1
>> 
>> No, Squeak 5.1 and 5.0 have only
>> 	• MethodPropertiesTest
>> Which tests the behavior of things around CompiledMethod>>properties and
>> AdditionalMethodState.
>> 
> 
> Yes, thank for the correction.
> 
> There is not class MethodProperties in Squeak 5.0 and 5.1
> 
> 
>> also you probably do not want to change the init method but rather implement
>> the following:
>> 
>> SmartRefStream>>methodPropertiespps0
>> 
>> 	^ AdditionalMethodState
>> 
>> This special method name allows the RefStream to identify the replacement
>> Class for MethodProperties.
> 
> 
> Yes, this is one options of dealing with classes which are no longer
> in the image.
> 
> 
>> That being said, I do not thing that it is necessary to map incoming
>> MethodProperties. They should rather be ignored and the corresponding
>> _method_ should just be recompiled.
> 
> ok.
> 
> 
>> That way it is assured that the correct
>> AdditionalMethodState is created.
>> I looked in Squeak 3.9, and all MethodProperties that exists are either
>> effectively empty or just replicate the primitive information, if any
>> (except for two methods in Parser, but that is not useful here I think). I'd
>> say its safe to ignore them on load (returning nil or something)
> 
> in which method?
> 
>> and rather trigger a recompile afterwards.
> 
> At which place should this happen?
> 

Good call on both. I have no idea, actually. I have used projects very little.

Best regards
	-Tobias

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> 
> 
> Best
> Hannes
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