Re: [Pharo-users] Updated Pharo By Example

2015-10-16 Thread Lyn Headley
[I have submitted the following issue but am posting here for the sake of discussion] Pharo is used by software developers, and software developers depend on packages. Therefore I believe that one of the first things a new Pharo user will want to do is install packages written by others. But Pharo

Re: [Pharo-users] Renaming a Class triggers debugger

2015-10-14 Thread Lyn Headley
>sorted: > MultiColumnListModel(ListModel)>>items: > MessageBrowser>>messages: > ... > WorldMorph>>doOneCycle > > So thanks Lyn, you found a bug. Did you get this same error, or just > similar? Anyhow, it may be the same root cause. > > However I

Re: [Pharo-users] Renaming a Class triggers debugger

2015-10-13 Thread Lyn Headley
Because Pharo 4 is the latest release. Do I really have to defend this choice? On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 2:32 PM, Alexandre Bergel wrote: > I have no idea. But why don’t you move to Pharo 5? > > Cheers, > Alexandre > > > > On Oct 13, 2015, at 4:36 PM, Lyn Headl

Re: [Pharo-users] Renaming a Class triggers debugger

2015-10-13 Thread Lyn Headley
at 2:52 PM, Nicolai Hess wrote: > Hi Lyn > > 2015-10-13 21:36 GMT+02:00 Lyn Headley : > >> Hello, >> >> I'm running pharo 4 and I'm having a problem. I recently renamed a >> class using the rename: menu item in the standard system browser (I >> b

[Pharo-users] Renaming a Class triggers debugger

2015-10-13 Thread Lyn Headley
Hello, I'm running pharo 4 and I'm having a problem. I recently renamed a class using the rename: menu item in the standard system browser (I believe it's called Nautilus) and now I am getting uncaught exceptions whenever I add or remove a method (three debugger windows pop up). Here is the stack

[Pharo-users] Accessors vs instance variables

2015-09-30 Thread Lyn Headley
Hello, As I understand it, in Smalltalk, the instance variables of a class C are "protected" - able to be referenced by methods of C or its subclasses, but not by other objects. This is a useful feature as it clearly points out which pieces of data are not available to other objects, and thereby s