[FIX][3.6b] RevertExceptionDescription-ab

Julian Fitzell julian at beta4.com
Fri Aug 22 04:25:52 UTC 2003


Well I guess "SomeClass does not understand #someSelector" would be 
ok... I just find the question mark a little obscure.

Julian

Doug Way wrote:
> 
> 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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