Ben Coman
Ben Coman
I've seen a few times newcomers forgetting the return symbol "^". From the tests we should be able to know which methods should return values and check they do.
From one of Tim's mentor comments... "I wouldn't recommend using #initialize on the class side - it doesn't behave like you probably expect and can catch you out" which I...
Saw this comment from a newcomer on Discord... > Delphi did have **constructors** more similar to Smalltalk than Java. Didn't have a silly special "new" keyword.. it was a method...
@macta, To validate my refactoring of generation, I'm comparing existing tests to what "would" be generated. There are some anomalies that may just need some background info. To try to...
@macta Just asking here while its on my mind without Discord access to open the discussion with you... Before I have to dig to familiarize myself with the generation code,...
The following is a typical test... ``` FlattenArrayTest >> test01_NoNesting [ | result | result := flattenArrayCalculator flattenArray: #(0 1 2 ) . self assert: result equals: #(0 1 2...
I'm having a hard time working with tools and exercises mixed in one repo. Here is the state of the system immediately after loading just the ExercismTools package, just prior...
Tim & Sam, Seeking your opinions. Pharo has a powerful and flexible exception handling system that I don't feel we are demonstrating. As I've been working through the Bowling exercise,...
Just a thought from reading a thread by *roelof* in Discord #learning-help channel. > raydeejay: don't reach inside an object to read properties and print them on a stream >...
Bumped into the following set of exercise around Reflection and thought it might provide the basis of some custom exercises to demostrate one of Pharo's strengths in "liveness". https://released.info.ucl.ac.be/courses/r+cop/material/04-P-MOP%20(with%20answers).pdf