[squeak-dev] Deprecating #ifNotNilDo: & friends

Levente Uzonyi leves at caesar.elte.hu
Fri Sep 10 01:25:29 UTC 2021


On Tue, 7 Sep 2021, christoph.thiede at student.hpi.uni-potsdam.de wrote:

> FYIO: https://sourcegraph.com/search?q=context:global+ifNotNilDo:+lang:Smalltalk+&patternType=literal
> 
> Among others, Seaside, SqueakJS/Caffeine, Squot, and many others still use this selector. It was a good idea not to deprecate it in the hard way. :-)

Still, we need a way to notify people that their code uses deprecated 
methods.
Perhaps it would be the best when the package is loaded and the image is 
interactive.


Levente


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