[squeak-dev] The Inbox: Kernel-ul.1411.mcz

Eliot Miranda eliot.miranda at gmail.com
Sat Sep 11 22:00:15 UTC 2021



> On Sep 10, 2021, at 1:55 PM, Levente Uzonyi <leves at caesar.elte.hu> wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 10 Sep 2021, Marcel Taeumel wrote:
> 
>> Hi Levente --
>> > removed Integer >> #isPowerOfTwo because it was not used: all subclasses implement that method
>> Hmm... what about removing the one in SmallInteger instead bc. its implementation is not that special. #strictlyPositive might be deprecated as well, looking at its 4 senders. Maybe just replace those few integer uses with ">
>> 0" instead. 
> 
> #strictlyPositive is a necessity because #positive doesn't do what you would expect to do.
> I disagree with the removal of SmallInteger's implementation. All subclasses implement the method optimally based on their own properties. Why should SmallInteger be an exception?
> Why isn't #subclassResponsibility good enough for Integer - an abstract class?

+1

> 
> 
> Levente


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