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philippeback

Re: Drastically improving the messageNotUnderstood title

I like talking to my computer.

And then see how stupid I was most of the time because this thing just did as told.

+42 as well.

Now, #MNU is quite a thing. What are we going to change that into?

Phil

On Thu, Dec 8, 2016 at 4:53 PM, Esteban Lorenzano <[hidden email]> wrote:

On 8 Dec 2016, at 16:44, Ben Coman <[hidden email]> wrote:

On Thu, Dec 8, 2016 at 7:14 PM, Dimitris Chloupis <[hidden email]> wrote:
I think

Message does not exist

Makes more sense, I always found the use of the word understood kinda weird

I always liked the term 'understand'. I think such anthropomorphism helps give the system its feeling of liveness, and changed the way I thought about programming.

+42

also “does not understand” puts the accent where it belongs: is a message *send* that is not part of object vocabulary…

Esteban

cheers -ben

kilon.alios

Re: Drastically improving the messageNotUnderstood title

It must be because I rarely see messages used anything more than method calls, and after 6 years with Pharo , I still don't get what the fuss is about .

On Thu, 8 Dec 2016 at 16:05, [hidden email] <[hidden email]> wrote:

I like talking to my computer.
And then see how stupid I was most of the time because this thing just did as told.

+42 as well.

Now, #MNU is quite a thing. What are we going to change that into?

Phil

On Thu, Dec 8, 2016 at 4:53 PM, Esteban Lorenzano <[hidden email]> wrote:

On 8 Dec 2016, at 16:44, Ben Coman <[hidden email]> wrote:

On Thu, Dec 8, 2016 at 7:14 PM, Dimitris Chloupis <[hidden email]> wrote:
I think

Message does not exist

Makes more sense, I always found the use of the word understood kinda weird

I always liked the term 'understand'. I think such anthropomorphism helps give the system its feeling of liveness, and changed the way I thought about programming.

+42

also “does not understand” puts the accent where it belongs: is a message *send* that is not part of object vocabulary…

Esteban

cheers -ben

Igor Stasenko

Re: Drastically improving the messageNotUnderstood title

not sure.. i envision something like that:

https://cdn.meme.am/instances/500x/66976516.jpg

Best regards,
Igor Stasenko.

stepharong

Re: Drastically improving the messageNotUnderstood title

In reply to this post by Sven Van Caekenberghe-2

On Thu, 08 Dec 2016 07:35:59 +0100, Sven Van Caekenberghe <[hidden email]>
wrote:

>>
>>>
>>> 2016-12-07 21:44 GMT+01:00 stepharong <[hidden email]>:
>>>>
>>>> Hi guys
>>>>
>>>> As I exposed newbies to our wonderfull debugger I think that we should
>>>> change
>>>>
>>>> MessageNotUnderstood: Class>>#message
>>>>
>>>> into
>>>>
>>>> an instance of Class did not understand message
>>
>> Perhaps(?) a short form can be put in brackets?
>> ==> an instance of Class did not understand #message sent to it (MNU
>> Class>>#message)
>
> +1

good idea!

>
>> cheers -ben
>>
>>>>
>>>> To me this simple change would have a HUGE impact on making the
>>>> debugger
>>>> first contact a lot more friendly.
>
>

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