file fullName/full

> The documentation in the manual says to get full name of a file, you
> should send
>
> fullName message
>
> actual image has no such message, it has
>
> full
>
> I'm assuming the documentation is wrong even though, fullName seems a
> more logical message
> name than full.
>
> Which is in error?

> Sean Allen wrote:
>> The documentation in the manual says to get full name of a file, you
>> should send
>>
>> fullName message
>>
>> actual image has no such message, it has
>>
>> full
>>
>> I'm assuming the documentation is wrong even though, fullName seems a
>> more logical message
>> name than full.
>>
>> Which is in error?
>
> Sending #full (that's the name of the message that is spelled "full",
> like #at:put: is the name of the message that is spelled "at: ... put:
> ...") is correct.  I avoided the term "name" because it is used for  
> some
> messages that return a String.

>
> On Jan 8, 2009, at 7:57 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>
>>
>>> I updated the manual.
>>
>> Done.  In the new manual (for 3.1) FilePath is a superclass of File, so
>> you'll see most of the methods you want under
>>
>> http://www.gnu.org/software/smalltalk/manual-base/html_node/FilePath.html#FilePath
>>
>
> so all these are part of FilePath not File?
>
> http://www.gnu.org/software/smalltalk/manual-base/html_node/File_002dtesting.html#File_002dtesting

> Sean Allen wrote:
>>
>> On Jan 8, 2009, at 7:57 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>> I updated the manual.
>>>
>>> Done.  In the new manual (for 3.1) FilePath is a superclass of  
>>> File, so
>>> you'll see most of the methods you want under
>>>
>>> http://www.gnu.org/software/smalltalk/manual-base/html_node/FilePath.html#FilePath
>>>
>>
>> so all these are part of FilePath not File?
>>
>> http://www.gnu.org/software/smalltalk/manual-base/html_node/File_002dtesting.html#File_002dtesting
>
> The manual includes all methods defined in a class.  An object  
> responds
> to methods in a class and its superclasses.
>
> You're more likely to find interesting methods in FilePath than in  
> File.
>
> http://www.gnu.org/software/smalltalk/manual-base/html_node/FilePath_002dtesting.html
> includes more messages than the URL you found, because for example
> FilePath can implement isRelative as
>
>   ^self isAbsolute not
>
> I'll add a list of inherited methods in each category to the manual,  
> as
> time permits.
>