[squeak-dev] Proposal | Remove SystemNavigation class >> #doesNotUnderstand:

Marcel Taeumel marcel.taeumel at hpi.de
Fri Jul 5 07:56:10 UTC 2019


In general, I like having SystemNavigation to navigate code objects.
Am 05.07.2019 00:50:11 schrieb tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org>:


> On 2019-07-04, at 3:43 PM, Eliot Miranda wrote:
>
> Hi Marcel,
>
> On Jul 4, 2019, at 2:24 AM, Marcel Taeumel wrote:
>
>> Hi, there.
>>
>> I just got really confused by the differences of
>>
>> [SystemNavigation allCallsOn: #drawOn:] bench.
>>
>> and
>>
>> [SystemNavigation default allCallsOn: #drawOn:] bench.
>>
>> because I expected that MNU fallback to kick in to insert "default" automatically.
>>
>> However, #allCallsOn: is actually implemented in Behavior and not just in SystemNavigation.
>>
>> Can we remove SystemNavigation class >> #doesNotUnderstand: so nobody starts relying on that?
>
> Tangentally, my feeling, and I know it was Andreas’ feeling too, is that all of
>
> SystemNavigation default ...
> SystemNavigation ...
> self systemNavigation ...
>
> are a real mouthful. Any abbreviation would be appreciated. “Smalltalk ...” was much nicer and arguably more comprehensible.

Mine too. I really don't understand the splitting up into near-incomprehensible boxes. So I'd say "can we remove SystemNavigation" or at least "can we provide Smalltalk>>allCalsOn: even if it just delegates"


tim
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