[Vm-dev] Does anyone have the source to
findSubstringViaPrimitive:in:startingAt:matchTable: ?
Esteban Lorenzano
estebanlm at gmail.com
Sun Oct 2 09:00:43 UTC 2016
> On 1 Oct 2016, at 22:17, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Sat, Oct 01, 2016 at 05:14:14PM +0200, Levente Uzonyi wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, 1 Oct 2016, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
>>
>> That name is a pharoism. In Squeak it's still
>> findSubstring:in:startingAt:matchTable:.
>> Perhaps the recent merge has overwritten it.
>>
>> Levente
>
> This naming inconsistency is a long standing annoyance that should be
> fixed. As of Feb 2011, I thought that we had reached agreement to do
> the necessary cleanup in the Pharo image:
>
> http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/vm-dev/2011-February/006781.html
>
> Maybe that was just wishful thinking on my part. I can no longer find the
> original email exchange, but I think it was on the pharo list.
>
> Maybe someone could open an issue on the Pharo bug tracker to make this
> problem go away?
>
> The original problem was addressed by Nicolas and Andreas:
>
> http://bugs.squeak.org/view.php?id=6366
>
> Meanwhile a workaround was introduced in Pharo, resulting in the renamed
> method.
>
> But once fixed in the VM, the Pharo workaround was no longer required,
> and should have been removed so that the Squeak and Pharo images would
> not require different VMMaker versions:
>
> http://bugs.squeak.org/view.php?id=7479 <http://bugs.squeak.org/view.php?id=7479>
well.. this kind of things is the reason why there should not be a fork anymore :)
I just didn’t remember that change and then I didn’t work on merge it :P
I will address this tomorrow.
Esteban
>
> Dave
>
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