As I threatened a while back, I've started up a "Pharo shim" - a
package that adds to a Squeak image those messages necessary to get interesting Pharo projects working in Squeak: http://www.squeaksource.com/PharoCompatibility At the moment "interesting projects" means "PetitParser", and so the shim merely contains Symbol >> #isBinary. Going forwards, as I find other bits necessary - my upcoming Helvetia/LanguageBoxes work will no doubt uncover bits and pieces - I'll add to Pharo-Compatibility. I expect some bits to make their way into trunk, and we can regard Pharo-Compatibility as a proving ground of sorts. frank |
Every one knows that messages in Smalltalk syntax can be
- unary - binary - keyword Unsurprisingly, there are corresponding methods implemented in Symbol... isUnary, isKeyword and... isInfix "Answer whether the receiver is an infix message selector." ^ self precedence = 2 Hmm, the name was surprising! It would not hurt me to see isBinary integrated in trunk and replacing the isInfix sends... Maybe the purpose was to avoid polymorphism with Stream>>isBinary ? Nicolas 2011/9/3 Frank Shearar <[hidden email]>: > As I threatened a while back, I've started up a "Pharo shim" - a > package that adds to a Squeak image those messages necessary to get > interesting Pharo projects working in Squeak: > > http://www.squeaksource.com/PharoCompatibility > > At the moment "interesting projects" means "PetitParser", and so the > shim merely contains Symbol >> #isBinary. > > Going forwards, as I find other bits necessary - my upcoming > Helvetia/LanguageBoxes work will no doubt uncover bits and pieces - > I'll add to Pharo-Compatibility. > > I expect some bits to make their way into trunk, and we can regard > Pharo-Compatibility as a proving ground of sorts. > > frank > > |
On Sat, 3 Sep 2011, Nicolas Cellier wrote:
> Every one knows that messages in Smalltalk syntax can be > - unary > - binary > - keyword > Unsurprisingly, there are corresponding methods implemented in > Symbol... isUnary, isKeyword and... > isInfix > "Answer whether the receiver is an infix message selector." > ^ self precedence = 2 > Hmm, the name was surprising! > > It would not hurt me to see isBinary integrated in trunk and replacing > the isInfix sends... +1 Levente > Maybe the purpose was to avoid polymorphism with Stream>>isBinary ? > > Nicolas > > 2011/9/3 Frank Shearar <[hidden email]>: >> As I threatened a while back, I've started up a "Pharo shim" - a >> package that adds to a Squeak image those messages necessary to get >> interesting Pharo projects working in Squeak: >> >> http://www.squeaksource.com/PharoCompatibility >> >> At the moment "interesting projects" means "PetitParser", and so the >> shim merely contains Symbol >> #isBinary. >> >> Going forwards, as I find other bits necessary - my upcoming >> Helvetia/LanguageBoxes work will no doubt uncover bits and pieces - >> I'll add to Pharo-Compatibility. >> >> I expect some bits to make their way into trunk, and we can regard >> Pharo-Compatibility as a proving ground of sorts. >> >> frank >> >> > > |
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On 9/3/2011 20:55, Nicolas Cellier wrote:
> It would not hurt me to see isBinary integrated in trunk and replacing > the isInfix sends... > Maybe the purpose was to avoid polymorphism with Stream>>isBinary ? Probably. I could easily see something like: ByteArray>>isBinary ^true String>>isBinary ^false in which case Symbol>>isBinary would be a major surprise. My preference would be a more explicit name along the lines of #isBinarySelector or #isSelectorBinary or something. #isBinary has a number of potential conflicts and the proposed implementation is used way to rarely to occupy such a generic name. Cheers, - Andreas |
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