replacing SmalltalkImage current

I join an update of the small utility to find message sent to globals.

This utility can be used like this:

1) create a file out of all senders of (SmalltalkImage current xxx).
MessageSentToGlobalMessage fileoutMessagesSentTo: #SmalltalkImage
selector: #current.

2) replace (SmalltalkIlage current) by Smalltalk in a text editor
(FileList is perfect).

3) fileIn from FileList et voila

You get unchanged formatting and unchanged Timestamping.

Nothing urgent though.
a) it maked changes not compatible with Pharo (maybe temporarily
because Pharo is interested in this refactoring)
b) we can also add an indirection via Smalltalk commandLine, Smalltalk
os, Smalltalk vm...
As we already have Smalltalk globals... why not ?

Nicolas

On 2010-03-06, at 5:15 PM, Nicolas Cellier wrote:

Um, don't we want to change the timestamps? It's a new version of the method after all.

Why not use the rewrite tool?

Colin

On Sat, Mar 06, 2010 at 07:14:22PM -0800, Colin Putney wrote:
Well, it's a judgement call, but in this case I think it makes sense
not to change the time stamps. The timestamps and intials give some
clues to help the reader understand who wrote something and when, and
it is good to preserve these clues when no functional change has been
made to the method.

The FixUnderscores procedure for changing assignment operators
to ":=" is another example where this makes sense.

Dave

2010/3/7 Colin Putney <[hidden email]>:
Because I don't know the rewrite tool.
Is there a way to avoid auto-formatting of rewriten methods ?

Nicolas