2011/8/29 Frank Shearar <frank.shearar at gmail.com>:
> On 28 August 2011 23:20,  <commits at source.squeak.org> wrote:
>> Nicolas Cellier uploaded a new version of Kernel to project The Trunk:
>> http://source.squeak.org/trunk/Kernel-nice.613.mcz
>>
>> ==================== Summary ====================
>>
>> Name: Kernel-nice.613
>> Author: nice
>> Time: 29 August 2011, 12:20:33.523 am
>> UUID: c5ac2f0a-3419-41d9-a4e5-0331ff55467d
>> Ancestors: Kernel-cmm.612
>>
>> Don't provide separate setters for Complex #real: and #imaginary: parts.
>> Instead, provide a single #real:imaginary: initializer, that's faster and safer (like Magnitude, Complex numbers might be shared and it would be dangerous to modify a Complex in place).
>>
>> =============== Diff against Kernel-cmm.612 ===============
>
> If I read my image correctly, this change is the final bit needed to
> make Complex "purely functional", in the sense that (apart from the
> inescapable full-state-setter (and crazy things like #instVarAt:put:))
> a Complex's state cannot change.
>
> Nice!
>
> frank
>

Well, I only reduced the temptation, but did not eliminate it, one can
always call the initializer twice... Newspeak is better protected if I
understood.

Nicolas