Wow, I actually had to look that up, because I found it incredible, but, lo
and behold, there it is, under *5.5.4.5 Message: resume*.  Does anyone know
why ANSI considers it erroneous?

> Notifications resume by default anyway if not curtailed.

A signaled Notification which is never curtailed is nothing, negative
even.  Their value is derived by being handled.  But, if you try to handle
a Notification, you're basically forced to resume it if you want to retain
the nature as if you didn't handle it.  By not guarantee'ing resumption,
ANSI forces handlers and signalers to coordinate when they should be
decoupled.

> The return value of defaultAction will be the resume value. So maybe it
should read ^ self defaultResumeValue, or the latter selector should not
exist in the library  classes.

Squeak has a couple of places that've been sending #resume from
defaultAction since their inception.  My inclination would be to understand
what we want to get out of Notification before making any changes.

For me, a Notification is informational output from a program that should
*always* resume afterward and, therefore, whose defaultAction should be to
resume: self defaultResumeValue.  *Request* should be its own major sub
branch of *Notification* for input.

 - Chris


On Sat, Jul 18, 2020 at 7:10 AM Jakob Reschke <forums.jakob at resfarm.de>
wrote:

> Chris Muller <asqueaker at gmail.com> schrieb am Sa., 18. Juli 2020, 04:42:
>
>>
>> As long as Notification>>#defaultAction remains
>>
>>     ^nil
>>
>> instead of
>>
>>       self resume
>>
>> then Smalltalk>>#run: *must* handle Notification, otherwise, what Tim
>> said would happen with headless apps, will happen.
>>
>
> resume must not be called from defaultAction according to the ANSI
> standard. Squeak may differ, but having this in the class library would set
> a bad example for applications that implement their own notifications.
> Notifications resume by default anyway if not curtailed. The return value
> of defaultAction will be the resume value. So maybe it should read ^ self
> defaultResumeValue, or the latter selector should not exist in the library
> classes.
>
>>
>
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