Re: [Pharo-users] SequenceableCollection>>#allButFirst: inconsistence across subclasses

2019-09-02 Thread Richard O'Keefe
Here's what I think. copyFrom: start to: stop " ANSI Smalltalk section 5.7.8.7, reorganised a bit. Answer a new collection containing all of the elements of the receiver between the indices start and stop inclusive in their original order. The element at index start in the receiver

Re: [Pharo-users] SequenceableCollection>>#allButFirst: inconsistence across subclasses

2019-09-02 Thread Richard O'Keefe
I didn't join all the dots. My point is that [all] but {first,last} have simple definitions in terms of #copyFrom:to: and that if you want to make them accept oversize counts, you either have to change the definition of #copyFrom:to: (bad idea) or cut these methods loose from #copyFrom:to: and defi

[Pharo-users] SLE 2019: Call for Endorsements - Most Influential Paper (MIP) Award

2019-09-02 Thread Andrei Chis
Call for Endorsements: ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Software Language Engineering (SLE) - Most Influential Paper Award SLE MIP Awards: http://www.sleconf.org/mip Follow us on twitter: https://twitter.com/sleconf SLE

Re: [Pharo-users] SequenceableCollection>>#allButFirst: inconsistence across subclasses

2019-09-02 Thread Kasper Østerbye
This is actually an intersting discussion. There are several levels to it. 1. Should Pharo be compatible with a standard from 1998? 2. What is the general view on using exceptions in Pharo? 3. What should allButFirst: do? Ad 1) I am relatively new to Pharo, If backwards compatibility is important

Re: [Pharo-users] Connection Timed Out

2019-09-02 Thread Jeff Gray
Have you tried manually opening up the gmail account you are sending from in the browser and looking for anything funny? I have had similar issues where the gmail was needing a security prompt/response. I wrote a service to send mails asynchronously (in case the gmail connection was down and genera