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

[Juan Vuletich]

On 5/14/2015 5:52 AM, H. Hirzel wrote:
> Thank you for the clarification, Juan.
>
> I am aiming at semi-automated porting, i.e. to come up with a recipe
> of activities to do the port https://github.com/hhzl/Cuis-NeoCSV.
>
> I want to redo it, as Sven has posted a new version last week end.
>
> Replacing
>
>       isCharacter
>
> with
>
>      is: Character
>
> is fine.

But in Cuis it would be '$a class == Character' or '$a isKindOf: 
Character'. A reasonable alternative is to simply add #isCharacter to 
SqueakCompatibility.pck.st.

> Then I'd like to apply the same recipe to his NeoJSON package.
>
> cheers
> Hannes

Cheers,
Juan Vuletich

> On 5/14/15, Juan Vuletich<juan at jvuletich.org>  wrote:
>> 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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