[Moose-dev] Re: Moose description mooseName printOn:

[Tudor Girba]

Hi,

description should be removed all together, as it comes from ancient  
times :). It was used to have a custom string description attached to  
an entity. For example, a select: applied to allClasses would have  
resulted in something like 'All Classes selected by ...'. This string  
was override-able and it was supposed to be a means to keep track of  
what an entity represents from the analysis point of view.

However, it was not used anymore and the idea evolved into Metanool.  
So, all in all, it should be removed.

Cheers,
Doru


On 5 Nov 2009, at 21:27, Alexandre Bergel wrote:

> #printOn: is used by Pharo tools to display objects. For example, a  
> famix class is printed as "a FAMIXClass #'Smalltalk::CRCError'"
>
> Glamour uses description to render items in browsers. It makes sense  
> to have a short description from the moose point of view (instead of  
> the developper tools point of view as with printOn:). A description  
> of a famix class could be  'Smalltalk::CRCError (Class)'
>
> mooseName returns a description shorter than with #description. It  
> is often used as dictionary keys and unique identifier. For the  
> famix class CRCError we have #'Smalltalk::CRCError'
>
> We could maybe replace #description for #mooseLongName. This will be  
> more explicit and make implementer/serder easily browsable since  
> #description is implemented in Monticello, Fame, Exception
>
> This is a good action task to do in my opinion. Shall I add an entry  
> in the Moose code google? Moreover, I do not see any Moose unit test  
> that test it (but I did a quick check).
>
> Cheers,
> Alexandre
>
>
> On 5 Nov 2009, at 10:01, Simon Denier wrote:
>
>> This morning, I tried to understand (I thought I understood before)  
>> the things about printing Moose entities, either in the finder or  
>> in an inspector, or whatever.
>>
>> Only thing I can say is it's a mess with a lot of yo-yo in the  
>> hierarchy.
>>
>> So there is
>> MooseEntity>>description
>> MooseEntity>>mooseName
>> MooseEntity>>printOn:
>>
>> also mooseNameOn: etc.
>>
>> MooseGroup tends to use description.
>> mooseName is likely a unique identifier, however it is also used to  
>> print an entity sometimes (in the moose finder)
>> #printOn: is not rationally overridden everywhere...
>>
>> Maybe someone wants to take a look and proposes a solution, at  
>> least some conventions/documentation.
>>
>> Which selector is used in which context.
>> Which method should I override in a new entity.
>>
>>
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