[squeak-dev] The Trunk: Graphics-mt.404.mcz

Chris Cunningham cunningham.cb at gmail.com
Thu Dec 6 21:33:57 UTC 2018


On Thu, Dec 6, 2018 at 9:46 AM Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de>
wrote:

> On Wed 5. Dec 2018 at 23:35, marcel.taeumel <Marcel.Taeumel at hpi.de> wrote:
>
>> I think that we got used to seeing "0 at 0 corner: 10 at 10" as a rectangle.
>> Like
>> "0 at 0 to: 10 at 10" might create a line (or an interval over points? The
>> same?
>> :-). Yet, "0 at 0 extent: 10 at 10" could also be a line or a vector.
>>
>> I like the verb-vs-noun argument. So, following Nicolas', Eliot's, and
>> David's thoughts, I vote for:
>>
>> Point >> #center:
>
>
> +1
>
> It's decent, but I would assume that the ARGUMENT is the center, not the
receiver.  As long as the callers name the variables well that might not be
a problem, but

10 at 10 center: 5 at 5

reading it without the discussion here, which would you assume the center
to be? 10 at 10 or 5 at 5?

Maybe #centerWithExtent:?
   10 at 10 centerWithExtent: 5 at 5

-cbc
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