[FIX][3.6b] RevertExceptionDescription-ab

Doug Way dway at riskmetrics.com
Fri Aug 22 03:46:57 UTC 2003


I guess one minor advantage to Anthony's change is that it lists the  
class of the not-understanding object in the titlebar, which is sort of  
handy.

But I agree that the question mark thing is sort of weird and I  
wouldn't mind seeing it reverted back to MessageNotUnderstood:, anyway.

- Doug


On Thursday, August 21, 2003, at 04:48 AM, Julian Fitzell wrote:

> Oh yes!  I only just opened up a 3.6 image for the first time in a  
> while the other day and I found that very odd and much less clear.  If  
> nobody gets to it first, I'll file this in and review it but I just  
> wanted to add a vote of approval in the meantime.
>
> avi at beta4.com wrote:
>> from preamble:
>> "Change Set:		RevertExceptionDescription-ab
>> Date:			20 August 2003
>> Author:			Avi Bryant
>> One thing that (perhaps irrationally) drives me nuts about the
>> ContextEnh changes is that, for no apparent reason,  
>> MessageNotUnderstood
>> exceptions now yield 'SmallInteger quux?' as their description text
>> rather than 'MessageNotUnderstood: quux'.  This changeset simply  
>> reverts
>> two methods (Exception>>description and
>> MessageNotUnderstood>>messageText) back to their original versions."!
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 
>> --



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