Hi


> On 28. Mar 2021, at 07:12, tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:
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>> On 2021-03-27, at 11:47 AM, Thiede, Christoph <Christoph.Thiede at student.hpi.uni-potsdam.de> wrote:
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>> Hi all,
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>> the proposal is in the title. :-) Do you think we could need something like #identityCaseOf:[otherwise:], analogously to #caseOf:[otherwise:], on Object?
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> I would go with 'not'. I'm not a fan of #caseOf: either. Far too like C. Slippery slope to "oooh, let's have thing.ivar.ivar to be like structs."
> 

Exactly.
If you need something like that, there's either a missing polymorphic abstraction, or a few ifTrue:'s are sufficient.
(as in the case of #update:

update: aSymbol

  aSymbol == #foo ifTrue: [^ self knorz].
  aSymbol == #bar ifTrue: [^ self berfp].
  ^ false

I think this is sufficient.

Otherwise, use an IdentityDictionary?

Best regards
	-Tobias