[squeak-dev] Selectors with underscores
Bert Freudenberg
bert at freudenbergs.de
Thu Mar 11 21:42:31 UTC 2010
On 11.03.2010, at 22:10, Nicolas Cellier wrote:
>
> 2010/3/11 Torsten Bergmann <astares at gmx.de>:
>>> To my understanding, there is no need of _ in selectors, BUT for
>>> hooking external procedures.
>>
>> There are different use cases, three of the most known:
>>
>> a) ORM (GLORP, ...)
>> Mapping column names (which may have underscores) to methods
>>
>> b) External stuff (FFI, C-Mapping)
>> Callbacks with the same name as C-functions (with underscores), ...
DBus calls is where I last encountered them. CamelCase methods can be called transparently, but for selectors with underscores I had to resort to #dbusPerform:. Actually, for those cases I'd wish for Croquet's positional arg support ... (ducks and runs)
- Bert -
>> c) Mapping of files to methods
>> Seaside for instance maps file resources (CSS, images,
>> javascripts, ... who can have underscores in filenames)
>> either external (Apache, ...) or in-image as methods in
>> subclasses of WAFileLibrary
>>
>> ...
>>
>
> Agree, procedure was a bit restrictive. Say external blob :)
>
> Nicolas
>
>> Bye
>> T.
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>>
>
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