[Vm-dev] Does anyone have the source to
findSubstringViaPrimitive:in:startingAt:matchTable: ?
David T. Lewis
lewis at mail.msen.com
Sun Oct 2 13:14:22 UTC 2016
On Sun, Oct 02, 2016 at 11:00:43AM +0200, Esteban Lorenzano wrote:
>
>
> > 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.
Thanks Esteban :)
Dave
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