[squeak-dev] Re: isSelfEvaluating

Andreas Raab andreas.raab at gmx.de
Sat Oct 31 06:04:00 UTC 2009


Nicolas Cellier wrote:
> Array that previously printed as literal #( .. ) still do
> Array that previously printed with braces { .. } (isSelfEvaluating) still do.
> Array that did print anArray( ... ) now print using { ... }
> So, you only loose quick identification of Array that can't be
> re-evaluated to itself
> 
> Note that isSelfEvaluating is plenty implementors for 1 sender, and
> was not correct anyway, and would be overkill to correct
> A killing example:
>     (Array with: (0 at 0 extent: 1 at 1) -> 0)
> So that was the rationale to trade off quick identification
> 
> Is this acceptable ?

+1. I like it.

Cheers,
   - Andreas



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