Paolo,<br><br>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:?<br><br>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).<br>
<br>Andres.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 1:03 AM, Paolo Bonzini <<a href="mailto:bonzini@gnu.org">bonzini@gnu.org</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">Andres Valloud wrote:<br>
> Hello.<br>
><br>
> I decided to go after the messages in Object first. Out of the list,<br>
> which I reproduce below,<br>
><br>
> Object class>>initialize<br>
> Object>>=<br>
> Object>>==<br>
> Object>>addDependent:<br>
> Object>>allOwners<br>
> Object>>become:<br>
> Object>>broadcast:<br>
> Object>>broadcast:with:<br>
> Object>>broadcast:with:with:<br>
> Object>>broadcast:withArguments:<br>
> Object>>broadcast:withBlock:<br>
> Object>>changed<br>
> Object>>changed:<br>
> Object>>copy<br>
> Object>>deepCopy<br>
> Object>>dependents<br>
> Object>>displayOn:<br>
> Object>>displayString<br>
> Object>>ifNil:<br>
> Object>>ifNil:ifNotNil:<br>
> Object>>ifNotNil:<br>
> Object>>ifNotNil:ifNil:<br>
> Object>>instVarAt:<br>
> Object>>instVarAt:put:<br>
> Object>>isReadOnly<br>
> Object>>makeReadOnly:<br>
> Object>>perform:<br>
> Object>>postCopy<br>
> Object>>release<br>
> Object>>removeDependent:<br>
> Object>>shallowCopy<br>
> Object>>storeLiteralOn:<br>
> Object>>storeOn:<br>
> Object>>storeString<br>
> Object>>update:<br>
><br>
><br>
> I think the following ones are good candidates for discussion. Since<br>
> the list includes = and ==, I added hash and identityHash.<br>
><br>
> Object>>=<br>
> Object>>==<br>
> Object>>hash<br>
> Object>>identityHash<br>
<br>
</div></div>Actually, these are already in the standard. My mistake.<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d"><br>
> Object>>become:<br>
> Object>>ifNil:<br>
> Object>>ifNil:ifNotNil:<br>
> Object>>ifNotNil:<br>
> Object>>ifNotNil:ifNil:<br>
> Object>>instVarAt:<br>
> Object>>instVarAt:put:<br>
<br>
</div>These are indeed good candidates for discussion.<br>
<br>
> Object>>perform:<br>
<br>
This one is already in the standard, but I wanted to propose an<br>
extension whereby you could pass a Message to #perform: (a<br>
<failedMessage> in standardese).<br>
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Paolo<br>
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