[BUG] Integer hex ( I send mail about this before)

stéphane ducasse ducasse at iam.unibe.ch
Mon May 15 06:47:10 UTC 2006


Hi boris

Should I integrate these fixes?
Were they integrate?

Stef


>>> Sorry edgar
>>>
>>> I do not understand your point. Can you resay it?
>>> Was the BUG fixed?
>>>
>>> Stef
>> No.
>
>> That is why I send again the news.
>> In the momment was a mini thread about this, and I believed
>> what was choosed repost old method.
> I wondered for some time what went wrong here, but now I think
> i got it. I assume that you loaded some packages into a 7032
> image, right? These packages seemingly require the method
> Integer > hex.
>
> It would be interesting to know what packages you loaded and
> what methods fail.
>
>> Today I join again to mainstream and at my surprise found this  
>> unfixed.
>> Worst, exist a Boris Gaertner fix what don't fix this (maybe fix  
>> others
>> things related).
> When it was proposed to remove Integer>>hex in facour of
> two other methods (printStringHex and printStringRadix:) I tried to
> fix all occurrences of hex in the basic image. The various packages
> remained of course unchanged.
>
> If I remember correctly, there as also some discussion about
> wether or not the replacement for  hex  should answer a string
> with the radix prefix  16r. It is quite possible that we still have
> problematic replacements.
>
>> And the bug is labelled Closed (what is not the case as bug still  
>> exist)
>> So, until all packaged go to 3.9 7032 level, IMHO the minor  
>> trouble was
>> repost old method.
>> I do in my own image and works.
> I think to load packages that require the hex method in Integer,
> you will have to add this method definition:
>
> hex
>   ^self printStringRadix: 16
>
> The experience of all this is   - in my opinion - that
> method deprecation makes a lot of older packages unusable.
> Was that kept in mind when we began to deprecate various
> methods?
>
> Greetings, Boris
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