On Tue, 30 Jun 2020, Chris Muller wrote:
> Might be worth reopening this discussion. ANY dependencies on #class seem like a bad thing to me, especially while it's still an in-lined message. Below is the MC version that did it. Looks like the time to change this
Using #class by default sounds correct to me. If some instances of
classes want to be equal to each other, they should handle that
themselves by overriding #=.
Because it causes that same undesirable loss of symmetry you mentioned about MCVersionName and String, except much worse because it's in a more general sense instead of application-specific. It makes headaches for Magma applications because client code has to be aware of it.
Smalltalk wants to be about messages, not types. What do we need to do to make #class non-inlined and therefore overridable? My impression is that this is on the table for 6.0, is it still?
- Chris