[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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