ok well the context wasn't clear to be honest. Best thing to do is to create an issue on the tracker and try and describe a test case for invoking the problem. This is in preference to just patching code that doesn't look right. thanks, Mike 2009/7/8 Schwab,Wilhelm K <bschwab@anest.ufl.edu>:
It certainly is not a generally applicable method for Dictionary (not all/most keys will not understand #beginsWith:), but for some senders, it might make sense, as it (I think) does for SystemDictionary.  It would bother me less as a loose method packaged as part of something that "needs" it, but I would be inclined to deprecate/clean it if it is intended as part of the collection protocol. Clients/senders could always define something like #dictionary:hasKeyBeginningWith:.
One of the great things about Smalltalk is the ability to add methods to system classes. This is probably not the best use of that freedom. Has this been of _any_ help? :)
Bill
________________________________ From: pharo-project-bounces@lists.gforge.inria.fr [mailto:pharo-project-bounces@lists.gforge.inria.fr] On Behalf Of David Goehrig Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2009 12:33 PM To: Pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr Subject: Re: [Pharo-project] doing bad things to Dictionaries.
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 1:06 PM, Michael Roberts <mike@mjr104.co.uk> wrote:
Why do you assume all keys of dictionarys understand beginsWith: ?
I don't. Someone else did. Â I just added a nil check to the code. Â There's probably bigger issues with this code. Dave
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