On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 12:55 PM, Andreas Raab <andreas.raab at gmx.de> wrote:

> Question: I've always wondered what this "isSelfEvaluating" stuff is good
> for. There are thirteen implementors and a single user in Array>>printOn:.
> Is there any *need* for Array>>printOn: to print a "self evaluating"
> expression? Why not just Array(element1, element2, ....) just like any other
> collection?
>
> We'd remove some 20 methods with no downside that I am aware of.
>

Shouldn't the test be isLiteral instead of isSelfEvaluating? c.f. storeOn:
storeOnStream:.



> Cheers,
>  - Andreas
>
>
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