[squeak-dev] The Trunk: Morphic-mt.1852.mcz
tim Rowledge
tim at rowledge.org
Mon Jan 24 18:02:43 UTC 2022
> On 2022-01-23, at 11:28 PM, Marcel Taeumel <marcel.taeumel at hpi.de> wrote:
>
> Hi Tim --
>
> > I've never noticed any confusion with the general case of Workspace and 'accept'; all it has ever done (we're talking around 40 years practice here) is save the content to a string as a backup.
>
> What kind of intransparent, fragile "backup" would that be? You hit the window's close button and that "backup" is gone. In my opinion, that's not a "backup".
Indeed - but it was never meant to be persistent beyond the window's life. It did what it did, consistently and simply, no more and no less. Sometimes that is good.
tim
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