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 HTH, cheers -ben