Turns out it was pretty easy to implement: https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/1683
On Sat, 11 Aug 2018 at 15:59, Damien Pollet <damien.pol...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have a double-dispatch chain: > x generic: y → y firstDispatch: x → x secondDispatchFromY: y > > However this has been added after the fact, so there are direct uses of > the secondDispatchFromY: layer, which I'd like to deprecate/rewrite to use > the generic: one. But if I do so, the intermediate firstDispatch: gets > rewritten in the process, and this results in an infinite recursion. > > Is there a way to formulate the rewrite rule to avoid that? > > I could make a whole new set of secondDispatchFromYbis: methods, change > the firstDispatch: ones to use those, and then the rewrite would be ok, but > it seems like a lot of noise in the code for a small deprecation… > > Thinking of it, this is not really a deprecation, more like an advice on > proper use… > > -- > Damien Pollet > type less, do more [ | ] http://people.untyped.org/damien.pollet > -- Damien Pollet type less, do more [ | ] http://people.untyped.org/damien.pollet
