[squeak-dev] Utilities' symbol mangling methods

Frank Shearar frank.shearar at gmail.com
Fri Nov 29 23:38:40 UTC 2013


On 29 November 2013 21:51, tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:
>
> On 29-11-2013, at 12:43 PM, Frank Shearar <frank.shearar at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> inherentSelectorForGetter
> That’s absolutely a Symbol method and really ought always have been there.

It wasn't clear to me either from the senders-of or the implementation
whether it should go on Symbol or String, so I went with the
broader/safer option, and put it on String.

But I take it you're voting for "put it on the dang object" option
rather than "monkey patching is evil"?

frank

> tim
> --
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