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One can always send any message to any receiver. :-)<div><br></div><div>The question is whether the answer can be meaningful or not. Can a client expect a meaningful answer from such a message send? Neither mentioning method dictionary nor superclasses help figure out when and why to send #respondsTo: to an object. Only Behavior is the domain and place to talk about method dictionary and superclasses. The comment in #canUnderstand: does already mention method dictionary and superclasses.<div><br></div><div>Just my two cents. :-)</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Marcel</div><div class="mb_sig"></div>
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<p style="color: #AAAAAA; margin-top: 10px;">Am 06.08.2019 07:00:19 schrieb Chris Muller <asqueaker@gmail.com>:</p><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div dir="ltr">Hi there, as we go to fix comments, may we take the opportunity to see if we'd like to change the nature of the comment in general?<div><br></div><div>Here's where I'm going: "built-in documentation". For all #firstComments anyway, in methods throughout the system, if we would direct those particular comments toward the *Dynabook user*, something like:</div><div><br></div><div> "Answer whether the receiver can be sent a message named aSymbol."</div><div><br></div><div>then relatively simple systems can easily extract it to help connect users to a Dynabook experience. Separate comments can be used to describe the 'dictionarys' or whatever implementation if desired, but since they wouldn't be the #firstComment, they wouldn't be presented in the user layer.<br></div><div><br></div><div>It's a simple but powerful leverage, what do you think?</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div> Chris</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Aug 5, 2019 at 9:39 AM <<a href="mailto:commits@source.squeak.org" target="_blank">commits@source.squeak.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left: 1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left: 1ex;min-width: 500px">A new version of Kernel was added to project The Inbox:<br>
<a href="http://source.squeak.org/inbox/Kernel-cmfcmf.1251.mcz" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://source.squeak.org/inbox/Kernel-cmfcmf.1251.mcz</a><br>
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Name: Kernel-cmfcmf.1251<br>
Author: cmfcmf<br>
Time: 5 August 2019, 4:39:08.95825 pm<br>
UUID: eb7ae4e2-7697-7745-b4c3-4f9ce5975e2b<br>
Ancestors: Kernel-mt.1250<br>
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Clarify comment in Object>>respondsTo: to indicate that the method can also be defined in a superclass.<br>
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Item was changed:<br>
----- Method: Object>>respondsTo: (in category 'class membership') -----<br>
+ respondsTo: aSymbol<br>
+ "Answer whether the method dictionary of the receiver's class or any of its superclasses contains <br>
- respondsTo: aSymbol <br>
- "Answer whether the method dictionary of the receiver's class contains <br>
aSymbol as a message selector."<br>
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^self class canUnderstand: aSymbol!<br>
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