[Cuis] isXXX methods? (was Re: 4 additions to core?)

[Juan Vuletich]

Hi Hannes,

On 5/13/2015 4:54 PM, H. Hirzel wrote:
> I do not fully get you Juan.
>
> Could you provide a bit more context about what you want to do with the
>
>        isXXX
>
> methods?
>
> HH

I just think that Object has too many methods, and has a lot of methods 
that are not the business of Object at all. A clear example is 
#isMethodProperties. Does Object really need to know or care about 
MethodProperties?

For the particular case of isXXX methods, in many cases they can be 
replaced by a single #is: method that in Object just answers false. See 
implementors in Cuis for its use.

There are many isXXX methods still in Cuis. #isHeap is an example.

HTH.

Cheers,
Juan Vuletich

> On 5/13/15, Juan Vuletich<juan at jvuletich.org>  wrote:
>> There's always more cleanup to be done!
>>
>> #isHeap is easy to remove. But #isArray might be a bit riskier. These
>> isXXX methods that simply answer a constant are extremely fast, and
>> never cause context switch. I guess this is important for #isFloat,
>> #isInteger, #isFraction, although the default that answers false could
>> be defined in Number, and not Object... And I'm not really sure for
>> #isArray.
>>
>> As usual, if you feel like digging into this, contributions are welcome.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Juan Vuletich
>>
>> On 5/12/2015 12:18 PM, David Graham wrote:
>>> I agree with this. :)  A while back I noticed that some collections
>>> have isXXX (like isArray and isHeap), while others don't.  Is this
>>> just a matter of cleanup or is there some logic I'm missing?
>>>
>>> On 5/10/2015 1:31 PM, Juan Vuletich wrote:
>>>>
>>>> - Character>>  isCharacter
>>>> I guess we'd also need to add it to Object for this to make sense.
>>>> But we all agree that calling isXXX methods is not nice style, right?
>>>>
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