[squeak-dev] Proposal | Resetting pragma preferences via 'nil' or #reset... message

Eliot Miranda eliot.miranda at gmail.com
Thu Oct 15 18:15:40 UTC 2020



> On Oct 15, 2020, at 4:27 AM, Marcel Taeumel <marcel.taeumel at hpi.de> wrote:
> 
> 
> New day, new thoughts on this matter. I don't think that having extra #reset... messages for pragma preferences is necessary. The getter as "ifNil" and so should the setter support a 'nil' argument to reset. I will update those remaining 20% of setters to support 'nil' as argument.

+1; very nice.

> 
> Best,
> Marcel
>> Am 15.10.2020 12:59:57 schrieb Marcel Taeumel <marcel.taeumel at hpi.de>:
>> 
>> Hmm... not sure how that happened. Maybe because I did that from a Vivide image. Well, no worries. I will use a fresh Trunk image as catalyst. :-)
>> 
>> Best,
>> Marcel
>>> Am 14.10.2020 20:32:49 schrieb Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com>:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 8:03 AM Marcel Taeumel <marcel.taeumel at hpi.de> wrote:
>>>> Hi all!
>>>> 
>>>> Please find attached a change set that will implement #restoreDefaultValue on PragmaPreference looking for an optional #reset... message or just setting the preference to 'nil' and hoping for the best.
>>>> 
>>>> I added #reset... methods for all pragma preferences that do either (a) not support 'nil' or (b) do costly update stuff.
>>>> 
>>>> In the ReleaseBuilder, I opted for resetting all preferences as early as possible.
>>>> 
>>>> Can I put this in the Trunk? :-)
>>> 
>>> Yes, but only if you remove all those stylings ;-)  I don't want y changes file filling up with junk that will be auto-styled over :-)
>>> 
>>> _,,,^..^,,,_
>>> best, Eliot
> 
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