[BUG] Integer hex is missing in 7006?
stéphane ducasse
ducasse at iam.unibe.ch
Fri Mar 10 20:56:58 UTC 2006
:)
Apparently I'm not the only one to fall on my keyboard.
Edgar, I suggest you to understand that sometimes your emails
looks really aggressive.
STef
>> I could do not send the "offensive" mail and maybe pass a long
>> time until
>> this trivial bug was discovered and fixed.
>>
>
> Yes. So do you propose everyone should now start to write mails
> in your style? Will this improve the time it takes to have bugs fixed
> or will this make everyone just leave the community?
>
>>
>> By the way , in previous image say hex was deprecated for Integer,
>> was is a
>> inconsistent if still exist in Character and others classes, all
>> hex should
>> go deprecated or Integer hex resurrected.
>>
>
> Yes, it was deprecated in 3.8 And we remove deprecated method *by
> default*
> one version later.
>
> So the whole problem was not caused done by the 3.9a release team.
> It was
> a side effect that would habe happened regardless of the person
> doing 3.9a.
>
> So after removing deprecations, Of course, it can happen that then
> we find out
> that in some cases, we should retain the deprecated methods
> another release,
> or that the deprecation was actually a bad idea. This could well be
> the case
> with #hex.
>
>> I vote for hex resurrected.
>
> So why didn't you write a mail that explained that nicely? Yes, it
> takes a long
> time to get changes in the release. But this is not the fault of
> those few who
> are crazy enough to try to improve Squeak... so I don't see how
> making those
> few feel miserable will help getting fixes accepted faster.
>
> Maybe I should just stop... in the end, what use it all that work?
> It's only making
> everyones live harder. We should have declared Squeak to be
> "untouchable"
> with 3.5, closed the project and moved on.
>
> Marcus
>
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