patching base classes

Randal L. Schwartz merlyn at stonehenge.com
Fri Nov 19 14:29:21 UTC 1999


>>>>> "Torge" == Torge Husfeldt <jean-jaques.gelee at gmx.de> writes:

Torge> I think this is just great!
Torge> When will it be incorporated in the Squeak mainstream?
Torge> Along with the obvious other changes of course. I.e.:
Torge> * Deleting every is... selector from Object which returns false.
Torge> * Replacing every isKindOf: HappyObject with isHappyObject
Torge> * implementing isHappyObject (=>true) in Class HappyObject.
Torge> This would solve about 200 of SMA's Problems
Torge> (see ohter thread: Of one who tired to strip the image).
Torge> It wold make Squeak more scaleable (i.e. implement isHappyObject => true in
Torge> any class that behaves like a HappyObject) and more clean.

As they say in any open source project:

        "Patches Welcome"

:-)

Of course, in this case, it'd be "file-ins".  But same idea.

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