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List:       squeakfoundation
Subject:    Re: [Squeakfoundation]defineClass fix!
From:       Daniel Vainsencher <danielv () netvision ! net ! il>
Date:       2002-12-20 13:42:09
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Hi, two motherboards and a powersupply later, I'm back.

Since we're not happy with any current proposal, and it's late in beta,
regardless of what the eventual fix is, I vote to back out, and mull it
over 3.5.

Daniel

Doug Way <dway@riskmetrics.com> wrote:
> 
> Ian Piumarta wrote:
> > 
> > On Mon, 16 Dec 2002 goran.hultgren@bluefish.se wrote:
> > 
> > > Aha, ok - the idea is that it gives you a proper "inform" instad of
> > > "Nothing more expected ->" if you start entering a method without first
> > > selecting a method category. If I understood it correctly.
> > 
> > Didn't this used to (way back yonder) create a new protocol (or add to an
> > existing protocol) called "as yet unclassified" for methods entered while
> > "--all--" is selected?  What happened to that?  (Or did I simply dream
> > that this was the case, in some kind of "perverse hacker nightmare"?)
> 
> This was changed awhile ago so that you could see the class template and the class' \
> list of methods at the same time, when selecting a class in the browser. 
> See http://groups.yahoo.com/group/squeak/message/52761 for more background.
> 
> I could go either way with either using Goran's fix, or just backing out Torge's \
> enhancement.  Goran said he'd vote to back out the enhancement, so maybe we should \
> just do that. 
> To me, the situation before Torge's enhancement wasn't all that bad... if I see the \
> class template in the browser text pane, I know that I won't be able to accept a \
> method there.  Maybe post-3.4, we could make things more newbie-friendly by adding \
> "define class" and "add method" menu items in the appropriate browser menus, which \
> would somehow steer people in the right direction (while still preserving the \
> existing ways of defining classes & adding methods, of course). 
> - Doug
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