There was a problem with the renaming somewhere in 3.6 for which I 
submitted a fix, which I think was reviewed and accepted. It is 
possible that afterwards it got mangled with some other KCP changesets, 
resulting in some problems. I'll have a look and fix the current one.

The original problem was that #rename: on class did not work, but 
SystemDictionary>>renameClass: worked. I fixed it so that both worked 
as expected. But since SystemDictionary was being refactored in the 
meantime it is possible that currently two things gor merged in the 
wrong way. Have to check...

On 12 Nov 2003, at 13:04, Phil Hargett wrote:

> I could be missing something, but I found myself very confused 
> yesterday when I attempted to use Class>>rename: to rename some 
> classes in one of my projects.  Since I needed to change the suffix on 
> more than a dozen classes, I figured doing this programmatically would 
> be the simplest, so I write a small line of code that created a 
> collection of my classes, then invoked #rename: on each one with the 
> new name.
>
> However, what I found is that after the renaming, the Class instances 
> themselves had not changed their names!  If I viewed the class in the 
> Browser, the name in the Class pane was correct (the new name), but 
> the class name listed in the class definition was the old one!  
> Further, if I examined the SystemDictionary had stored at the symbolic 
> name for the class I discovered that a class was stored there that 
> reported the *old* name for the class.
>
> Best as I can gather by looking at the versions of the Class>>rename: 
> method, in changeset 5457 (Squeak 3.7 alpha), a ClassRenameFix was 
> applied that dropped any assignment to the Class's name instance 
> variable.  Whereas prior to that change the last line of the method 
> read name := newName, no such assignment occurs now.  Further, I could 
> find no such assignment or invocation of Class>>setName:, the private 
> method for performing that assignment.  Oh, and I tried renaming a 
> class through the browser, and it has the same effect: renames the 
> class in SystemDictionary and SystemOrganization, but doesn't rename 
> the Class object itself.
>
> If there's some background housekeeping task that updates names (and I 
> missed it) that's great; would love the education.  Otherwise, I think 
> we have a bug.
>
>
Roel Wuyts                                                              
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roel.wuyts at ulb.ac.be                               Université Libre de 
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