[squeak-dev] stepTime and wantsSteps
Bob Arning
arning315 at comcast.net
Fri Dec 14 14:28:04 UTC 2018
I think the same and this is one of the issues with categories: they are
slices along one axis. If you prefer a different axis, categories are
often all wrong.
On 12/14/18 9:12 AM, karl ramberg wrote:
> Isn't that 'testing' category for like querying the object/morph for
> properties? Like 'wantsSteps', isMorph etc.
> So not for SUnit testing.
>
> So maybe the category should be named something else to not confuse.
>
> Cheers,
> Karl
>
>
> On Fri, Dec 14, 2018 at 10:17 AM <patrick.rein at hpi.uni-potsdam.de
> <mailto:patrick.rein at hpi.uni-potsdam.de>> wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> while going through the categorizes of Morphic I noticed (or
> re-discovered) the fact that stepTime and wantsSteps are both in
> the category 'testing'. While I figured out that this is the case
> at least since Squeak 3.3, I find this very odd. I would have
> expected both methods in the category 'stepping and presenter' to
> which they belong.
>
> Are there any good reasons for keeping the methods in that category?
>
> On that note: The 'testing' category of Morphic contains several
> other apparently misplaced methods such as #knownName, #renameTo,
> #renameInternal:. If no one feels strongly about the membership of
> these selectors in these categories, I will go ahead in a few days
> and recategorize them.
>
> Bests
> Patrick
>
>
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