[Newbies] Delegates, aliases, or ? How to deal with (avoiding) renaming

[Todd Blanchard]

One other suggestion that might work - create a category for your  
methods right on FloatArray.  Put them in a category *projectname.
You should probably read up on PackageInfo to understand how naming  
conventions work.

http://beta4.com/squeak/aubergines/docs/packageinfo.html


On May 10, 2006, at 1:38 PM, Charles D Hixson wrote:

> David Shaffer wrote:
>> C...
>>
>> Again, I'd suggest an adapter class if you want to preserve the  
>> API of
>> your C++ classes in your Smalltalk code.
>>
>> Hope this helps...
>>
>> David
>>
> Well, that's where I want to start.  Presumably in the course of the
> translation I'll get a better idea of what the thing is doing, and
> possibly then I'll refactor.  (I started off using the adaptor  
> pattern,
> but as it started getting messy, I thought I ought to check and
> ascertain that this was, indeed, the correct approach.  While  
> writing to
> ask about it was really the first time I had thought that subclassing
> might be the best approach.)
>
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