[Pharo-users] [ANN] Pharo Consortium New Academic Member: Laboratoire DISP

2020-09-16 Thread Marcus Denker
The Pharo Consortium is very happy to announce that DISP Lab has joined the Consortium as an Academic Member. About - Laboratoire DISP: https://disp-lab.fr/ - Pharo Consortium: http://consortium.pharo.org The goal of the Pharo Consortium is to allow companies and institutions to support the on

[Pharo-users] Re: How can I make this more OOP

2020-09-16 Thread Stéphane Ducasse
respondTo: is different from a perform based on forging a selector. respondTo: implies a different control while perform: is just sending a message. Some logic of Spec or something else was doing respondTo: and it is an indication of weak polymorphism. Either objects are polymorphic or they ar

[Pharo-users] Re: How can I make this more OOP

2020-09-16 Thread Richard Sargent
On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 10:28 AM wrote: > Stéphane Ducasse wrote: > > refrain from using respondTo: I make code difficult to evolve and can > introduce vicious bugs. > > Steph, would you say more about this? It’s something I’ve been wondering > about. > > I was recently reading the Strategy patt

[Pharo-users] Re: How can I make this more OOP

2020-09-16 Thread sean
Stéphane Ducasse wrote: > refrain from using respondTo: > I make code difficult to evolve and can introduce vicious bugs. Steph, would you say more about this? It’s something I’ve been wondering about. I was recently reading the Strategy pattern in the Smalltalk Companion to the GOF book. On

[Pharo-users] Re: [Pharo-dev] Updating lists.pharo.org: New server, Mailman3 and more

2020-09-16 Thread Marcus Denker
Yes, I had a complaint/question that I need to check, I have set it to private for now. Marcus > On 15 Sep 2020, at 20:56, Stéphane Ducasse wrote: > > marcus I tried and I could not see the archive. > Apparently the archive is still private. > >> On 14 Sep 2020, at 19:54, Marcus Denk