Re: [Pharo-dev] Lowering the pain of newbies

Aug. 17, 2017

      On jeu. 17 aoÃ»t 2017 at 21:53, Stephane Ducasse <stepharo.self@gmail.com>
wrote:
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Hi guys
my son coded in Pharo 60
testGuessUrlPart
|dg8|
      dg8 := GameItem new;
                  name: 'Dragon Quest VIII : Journey Of The Cursed King';
                  console: 'PS2'.
       self assert: dg8 guessUrlPart equals:
'dragonquestviiijourneyofthecursedking'
and guess what he broke the system.
We should not accept such kind of behavior.
name: should not change the name of the class.
I do not know the solution but I fear when I will teach 160 students this
fall.
We should make sure that Pharo is not a system only for experts!
any idea is welcome
https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/20322/name-sent-to-a-class-SHOULD-NOT-auto...
Stef
Fast answer:

Some month (year?) ago I proposed to get pre-compilation rules that could
show warnings in interactive mode.

Maybe this can be a path to dig.

:)
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