[squeak-dev] SequenceableCollection #= method in current trunk differs from Squeak 5.2

David T. Lewis lewis at mail.msen.com
Fri Jul 3 12:42:59 UTC 2020


On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 02:43:26AM +0200, Levente Uzonyi wrote:
> Hi Nikolai,
> 
> On Mon, 29 Jun 2020, Nikolay Suslov wrote:
> 
> >Hello all,
> >Figuring out, could we go back to the previous version of 
> >SequenceableCollection??#= method (as in Squeak 5.2), to check if the 
> >receiver is??equivalent to the otherCollection by using "self species == 
> >otherCollection species",
> >instead of "self class = otherCollection class"?
> 
> IIRC there was a good reason for that change though I can't recall
> what it was. I'm sure the mailing list remembers.
> 

The change has my initials on it, and it was introduced here:

  Name: Collections-dtl.821
  Author: dtl
  Time: 16 February 2019, 6:18:27.925895 pm
  UUID: 9bfa29b3-5e9f-4c61-b19b-e0bb05403589
  Ancestors: Collections-nice.820
  
  Classes are expected to be unique in the system, but in some cases (e.g. Magma)
  it is also useful to expect a proxy for a class to test equivalent to the
  actual class. Therefore, in SequenceableCollection>>= use #= rather than #==
  for the class comparison.


The discussion on the list was here:

  http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2019-February/201600.html

Dave



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