[ANSI-Smalltalk] Protocol extensions - Object

[Peter van Rooijen]

On Tue, 09 Sep 2008 03:10:16 +0200, Richard A. O'Keefe <ok at cs.otago.ac.nz>  
wrote:

> #raisedTo: is standard...
> #changed: is part of the traditional dependency protocol.
> A quick scan found a great many ...ed:... methods in VWNC5.
>
> I'd prefer #sendTo: myself, but if something isn't _too_ badly
> named, it's somewhat discourteous to rename it from existing
> practice.

I agree.

> (I am still very upset that the ISO Prolog committee
> took the predicate name I invented before there WAS an ISO
> Prolog committee, atom_chars/2, and changed its meaning.

I'm sorry to hear it :-(.

> It's
> certainly less offensive to give an old thing a new name than
> to give an old name an incompatible meaning,

I agree.

> but with libraries
> as large as real Smalltalks, it may be unavoidable.)

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