Dialog warn: equivalent in squeak

Bob Arning arning at charm.net
Wed May 28 02:48:07 UTC 2003


On Tue, 27 May 2003 17:07:28 -0700 Joel Shellman <joel at ikestrel.com> wrote:
>This is an example of the oddness (to me) I was referring to about Object
>being bloated. Isn't this completely absurd to have this inform method on
>Object?
>
>The funny thing is all it does is delegate to:
>
>PopUpMenu inform: 'hello'
>
>Which to me makes a lot more sense.
>
>I find it rather odd/interesting that Bob referred to the method on Object
>instead of to PopUpMenu. Anyway... I'll go review those other threads that
>Julian referred me to and see if I can make myself useful on that subject.

I find it a lot easier to remember self than to remember PopUpMenu, plus self allows interesting possibilities for overriding #inform: behavior in certain parts of an application.

Cheers,
Bob



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