2009/10/30 Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com>:
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> On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 12:55 PM, Andreas Raab <andreas.raab at gmx.de> wrote:
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>> 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
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>> We'd remove some 20 methods with no downside that I am aware of.
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> Shouldn't the test be isLiteral instead of isSelfEvaluating? c.f. storeOn:
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Yes that's the default behaviour of Object>>isSelfEvaluating.
But the 3.9 team wanted to extend this to a few other objects, like
Point, Rectangle, ...
The reason for this extension is the presence of brace notation.

Nicolas

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>> Cheers,
>>  - Andreas
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