Re: [sc-dev] Node classvar addActions should have a getter

[James Harkins <jamshark70@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Saturday, Nov 20, 2004, at 12:19 US/Eastern, Julian Rohrhuber wrote:

> > Otherwise, I have to redefine the dictionary in other methods that might need to turn an addaction into a number.
> >
> > Can I commit it?
>
> it might be sematically clearer to add a method:
>
> *addActionToNumber { arg key;
> ^addActions[key]
> }

Done.

	*actionNumberFor { |addAction = \addToHead| ^addActions[addAction] }

The word "add" is used as the first part of so many method names -- intended as a verb -- that it would be confusing to call it addActionToNumber.

Node.addActionToNumber(\addToHead) -- what are you adding, and why is the argument not a number?

Node.actionNumberFor(\addToTail) -- English!

hjh
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