[squeak-dev] asX message sent of object of type X

Levente Uzonyi leves at elte.hu
Wed May 11 19:56:25 UTC 2011


On Wed, 11 May 2011, Nicolas Cellier wrote:

> 2011/5/10 Levente Uzonyi <leves at elte.hu>:

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>> I'd like to have #asOrderedCollection, #asSortedCollection and
>> #asCharacterSet returning the receiver if it's already the instance of the
>> named class. It's not backwards compatibility what stops me to add these
>> methods, but the fact that adding these would result in silent errors in
>> code which relies on the copy creation.
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> The difference with backward compatibility must be too subtle for me
> to understand :)

Oh, there's no difference. It's just a hard to resolve backwards 
compatibility issue.


Levente

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