After a little research... Great! The last time I used Smalltalk there were no packages. What a useful concept class extensions are. Is the best way to see a package's extensions to just browse the package (i.e. Ctrl-P in the packages pane of the browser)? TF On Nov 11, 2010, at 8:56, Stéphane Ducasse <stephane.ducasse@inria.fr> wrote:
On Nov 11, 2010, at 5:14 PM, Tony Fleig wrote:
Hi,
I find myself wanting a Character>>isConsonant method in addition to the existing Character>>isVowel method. It might be defined as
Character>>isConsonant ^ self isLetter & self isVowel not
My question is: what is the best way to do this?
Should I simply add the method to Character? If I do, I guess I must remember to merge my Monticello changes into each new version of Character? Is there some way to bundle this change in my package so I don't forget?
but if you add this method in the character class as a class extension of your package then the addition will be done automatically each time you load it.
I have created a method in my class MyClass>>characterIsConsonant: aCharacter, but it doesn't read well in the code.
I suppose I could add the method dynamically in my class's initialize method... Not sure how to do that exactly.
Is there another way to do this that I haven't thought of?
Thanks, TF