On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 7:35 AM, Igor Stasenko <siguctua@gmail.com> wrote:
On 27 January 2017 at 01:30, Ben Coman <btc@openinworld.com> wrote:
On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 6:02 AM, stepharong <stepharong@free.fr> wrote:
On Thu, 26 Jan 2017 20:38:49 +0100, Torsten Bergmann <astares@gmx.de> wrote:
stepharong wrote:
can we rename this selector? asMethodConst should be at least be renamed to asConstantMethod
When you use "as {something}" then "something" depicts the result of the conversion message sent to an object.
Like in #asNumber or #asString which shows to what the receiver will be converted.
Yes I thought that it was doing that.
My understanding is that in the case discussed the receiver object is NOT converted to a constant unchangeable method, so #asConstantMethod would not fit as a selector.
Instead it is sent to an object that afterwards is a constant within a method (so it will not be evaluated later at runtime again) so IMHO #asMethodConstant instead of #asMethodConst would be better.
I do not understand any of them.
method constant = constant of a method
constant method = method that does not change
are you sure?
pretty sure. 'method' is the subject. 'constant' is the adjective that modifies the subject. Its a bit hard to explain that intrinsic feeling of what is right, but maybe.... If the adjective follows the subject its usually separated by little joining words. http://www.grammar-monster.com/glossary/adjective_definition.htm
maybe it is constant method = method that returns constant?
For me this does not compute. But I understand rules differ in other languages and its hard to avoid subtle influences from your primary language. And still, it could just be my personal bias. So if you & Stef find it ambiguous, it may be for others and we should aim to avoid that. cheers -ben
apparently, that's why 'constant' term doesn't fits there, because there's so many confusion about it. what are the constant in dynamic system, after all?