I don't use GitHub. I've never used GitHub. I don't know how to use GitHub.

I looked at making a pull request and I was totally stymied. "Clueless"
doesn't even begin to describe how I felt.


Ben Coman wrote
> On Sat, May 27, 2017 at 9:15 PM, horrido <

> horrido.hobbies@

> > wrote:
>> Yes, I did. I found it difficult to understand. It would be nice to have
>> some
>> clear examples in the documentation, for example, really simple and
>> common
>> situations such as a C function returning an integer in a
>> passed-by-reference argument.
>>
>> Speaking of documentation, in "Pharo by Example 50," I found this
>> statement:
>>
>>> (Recall that you should set halosEnabled in the Preferences
>> browser.)
>>
>> However, nowhere else in the book is there any reference to halosEnabled
>> or
>> Preferences browser.
> 
> Nice pick up.  Now in Settings (in a fresh 60473 image), filtering on
> "halo" shows only:
>  * Cycle both directions
>  * Encloses fullbounds
>  * Exhibits bounds
> so the comment seems irrelevant
> 
> and #halosEnabled & #halosEnabled: each have one implementor class-side of
> Morph
> with one sender from MorphTest each, and one sender from Morph>>addHalo:
> 
> and "Morph halosEnabled" ==> true,  so the statement seems unnecessary.
> Would you like to contribute a pull request removing it?
> https://github.com/SquareBracketAssociates/UpdatedPharoByExample/blob/master/Morphic/Morphic.pier
> 
> 
>> Did you guys forget and leave out a chunk of the book?
> 
> Its an evolutionary book originally from Squeak.  It could well be
> that some parts of the book have been cleaned
> better than others to match Image changes.  Thanks for reporting, and
> even better if you can correct it.
> 
> cheers -ben





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