[squeak-dev] The Inbox: Monticello-ul.726.mcz
Levente Uzonyi
leves at caesar.elte.hu
Wed Jul 1 00:57:24 UTC 2020
On Tue, 30 Jun 2020, Chris Muller wrote:
> Hi Levente and Jakob,
>
> > Am Mo., 29. Juni 2020 um 01:43 Uhr schrieb <commits at source.squeak.org>:
> >>
> >> + ----- Method: MCDirectoryRepository>>includesVersionNamed: (in category 'versions') -----
> >> + includesVersionNamed: aString
> >> +
> >> + | comparable |
> >> + comparable := ((aString endsWith: '.mcz') and: [ aString size > 4 ])
> >> + ifTrue: [ aString allButLast: 4 ]
> >> + ifFalse: [ aString ].
> >
> > Thank you for the suggestion. Why not use aString asMCVersionName
> > versionName here?
>
> Copy-paste from parent.
> When Chris introduced MCVersionName, he tried to use #asMCVersionName
> there, but later he reverted it according to the history of the parent
> method. It probably broke stuff (see below).
>
>
> Hmm... that's true, unfortunately, my comment only says, "Fix" it with no other details. I can't help but wonder if it was due to a #class test somewhere..
>
>
> I think MCVersionName is something that should not exists in its current
> form. Why?
> - it's a subclass of ByteString, which limits the possible character set
>
>
> It's common in the IT industry for Name identifiers to be restricted to a subset of ASCII to support interoperation with as many types of systems as possible. It seems an appropriate choice for MC Version names.
>
> - #= is not commutative when one object is an MCVersionName, the other is
> a ByteString:
> 'foo' = 'foo.mcz' asMCVersionName. "==> false"
> 'foo.mcz' asMCVersionName = 'foo'. "==> true"
> - the above property breaks the contract of #hash and #=, so they
> sometimes misbehave in hashed collections
>
>
> Not in actual practice, though. The intent was that all uses of version names would be ensuring they're dealing with the first-class MCVersionName. If one, theoretically, were to mix Strings and MCVersionNames as in your
> example, yes, it would misbehave so... "don't do that." :)
If it shouldn't be mixed with strings, why is it a string?
Levente
>
> - Chris
>
>
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