[Cuis-dev] Poll: ? instead of is: ?

[Hernan Wilkinson]

Hi,
 initially I think that in is this case it is not a good idea.
 For me, ? is not expressive enough to deduce the same meaning of #is:

 I would not adopt it for this, sorry :-).

 Hernan.

On Tue, Aug 6, 2019 at 8:54 AM Juan Vuletich via Cuis-dev <
cuis-dev at lists.cuis.st> wrote:

> Hi Folks,
>
> One thing I don't like about the #is: message is that being a keyword,
> it usually requires parenthesis. Today I realized we can use #? instead.
> So, we could write:
>
> aForm ? #GrayForm ifTrue: [ self doSomething ].
>
> instead of
>
> (aForm is: #GrayForm) ifTrue: [ self doSomething ].
>
> Do you like it? What do you prefer, #is: or #? ? Reasons for adopting or
> not adopting it?
>
> Thanks,
>
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