[ANSI-Smalltalk] A list of interesting methods, not present in
the ANSI standard
Paolo Bonzini
bonzini at gnu.org
Thu Mar 20 07:17:22 GMT 2008
Andres Valloud wrote:
> Paolo,
>
> Regarding perform:, I just feel that it's not symmetric with
> doesNotUnderstand: in that the former takes selectors and the latter
> receives messages. Perhaps we should have performMessage:?
Why not have polymorphism? In the end, Message #perform: is easily
implemented as the failure code for selector #perform:.
> Also, mustBeBoolean is missing... (the message sent by at least some VMs
> when they try to "send" ifTrue:ifFalse: and the receiver is not a boolean).
Yes.
Paolo
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