On Tue, 04 Aug 1998 11:20:26 -0400 Mark Wai <mwai at ibm.net> wrote: 
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>Just curious, why you need to do 
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>self flag: #knowBug
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>instead of just put down the symbol (i.e. just have #knowBug in a line)?
>What is the use of >>flag: ?  
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One reason might be to enable finding ALL flags by browsing senders of #flag:. You could also reimplement Object>>flag: (in Object or at a lower level) to record when flagged methods are actually evaluated.

Cheers,
Bob