[BUG] [FIX] duplicate "-- all --" category
Tim Rowledge
tim at sumeru.stanford.edu
Fri Jul 26 17:20:09 UTC 2002
Scott Wallace <scott.wallace at squeakland.org> is claimed by the authorities to have written:
> However, your proposed change to
> fileOutCategory:on:toFile:moveSource: breaks several other of its
> senders, because several of them actually expect and require that "--
> all --" be specially handled to produce all the selectors implemented
> by the class, and *not* be thought of as an actual, concrete category.
Now that sounds like seriously dodgy code. Why (ab)use the system that
way when you can find all the selectors implemented by a class in other
clean ways? Very strange.
tim
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