On Sat, 17 Dec 2011, Janko Mivšek wrote:

Hi guys,

Isn't a time come to finally rename this unfortunate method #name in Object to something more internal? From its comment it seems it is using just for debugging:

Object>>name "Answer a name for the receiver. This is used generically in the title of certain inspectors, such as the referred-to inspector, and specificially by various subsystems. By default, we let the object just print itself out.. "

^self printString

I namely just crashed my image and spend quite some time to find why, by implementing:

MyClass>>printString

^'aMyClass', self name

You should almost never override #printString. If you want to change the printString of an object, then you should override #printOn:. Levente

Later I renamed #name to say #myName but forgot to rename a call in this #printString method too. Boom, infinite recursion!

Please allow us therefore to use #name in our classes for things a word "name" is meant!

Best regards Janko

-- Janko Mivšek Aida/Web Smalltalk Web Application Server http://www.aidaweb.si