[squeak-dev] Re: Possible Background fix

Mirko Kapps mirkok.lists at googlemail.com
Mon Jan 24 01:01:21 UTC 2011


On 23.01.2011 06:12, Casey Ransberger wrote:
> No, exceptions happen all the time, it just seems that I need to deal with them less often than I do in certain other languages.
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> Far as the Transcript warning goes, that's just to remind you that
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> Transcript show: 'Argh WTF are you nil?' , object.
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> ...doesn't really belong in Etoys:)
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> People use the Transcript a lot to do the equivalent of printf() debugging, and the system likes to remind you that you've left messages to the transcript in your methods.
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> Like any form of logging or console output, the goal is to communicate effectively with the user without being spammy. Make sense?
>

Yes, makes perfectly sense. Thanks for the explanation.



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