On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 02:12:58PM -0800, Eliot Miranda wrote:
Hi All,
is printOnStream: useful? Anyone know what it was for? It lookswrong to me. It prints strings rather than objects. e.g. thisContext method printOn: Transcript writes 'a CompiledMethod' to Transcript, rather than a CompiledMethod Further some of the method stamps are 1901.
The Pharo guys have nuked this. Looks like it might be a good idea.
best, Eliot
These methods are apparently by Marcel Weiher (MPW) and are probably related to Postscript encoding, see MorphicExtras-Postscript Filters.
None of this (including the Postscript encoding) is used in Squeak now, and I don't see any usage as far back as Squeak 3.6 either.
Maybe someone can remember what this was used for? Otherwise, I can't see anything wrong with removing all implementers of #printOnStream: as well as the entire category "MorphicExtras-Postscript Filters" and the test method IntegerTest>>testIntegerByteEncoded.
(cc to a possibly valid email address for Marcel)
Dave