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

[H. Hirzel]

OK, for the meantime let's add

     isCharacter

to SqueakCompatibility.pck.st.

HH

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