[Seaside] Gemstone / Magritte

[stephane ducasse]

I was wondering if selector namespace would be of an help there.
And if the complexity (tools support...and others) introduced would  
be worth. I have the impression (may be bad and that goes again
my language designer "role/job" that idiom-driven solution like  
prefix are better to a certain
point and that this is not clear when they are really bringing a  
benefit).

Stef


On 7 août 07, at 22:55, Lukas Renggli wrote:

>> Well, this issue has certainly made me think carefully about  
>> introducing
>> extension methods and how they're named, for sure.  But I have been
>> mentioning it for about 2 years.  Not that it bothers me too much, I
>> maintain my local port with #descriptor and happily use  
>> #description all
>> over my domain classes for a description string.
>
> Exactly, after all it is no big deal. The name of this method is not
> particularly important to Magritte, you can answer your descriptions
> from whatever method you like ...
>
>>> Magritte did not start as a
>>> framework, but evolved from a couple of helper classes in
>>> SmallWiki. It is clear that any selector name potentially
>>> leads to conflicts. I agree that #descriptor would have been
>>> a slightly better, but the fact that I know a couple of
>>> packages that implement #descriptor is not really motivating
>>> me to make that change.
>>
>> Understandable, have you considered whether there'd actually be  
>> collisions
>> with those other packages in actual use?  Glorp and OmniBrowser  
>> use it, but
>> not in a way that'd collide with Magritte, what other packages do  
>> you know
>> of?
>
> Personally I've never used #description for anything else, I only
> observed later on that other people do. I remember considering
> #asDescription, but according to Kent Beck I rejected this conversion
> selector because (1) source and destination don't share the same
> protocol and (2) there is not only one correct answer.
>
> Magritte initially started in VisualWorks. There the IO accessors, the
> StORE source code management and some parts of the wrapper GUI
> framework use #descriptor.
>
>> You're right, but they don't always use English idioms.  You're a  
>> good
>> example, I've tripped over a selector or two of yours before like
>> beEphemeral, perfectly valid, but it doesn't feel idiomatic to me,  
>> I'd
>> expect the average American to say something like beTransient as  
>> an opposite
>> to bePersistent.  Not a big deal, just an observation.
>
> I got the idea from VisualWorks. They have a class called  
> #Ephemeron there ;-)
>
>> And please, don't take any of this as bitching, I'm not, you're  
>> one of my
>> favorite programmers.  Much of my current style comes from things  
>> I've
>> learned reading Seaside and Magritte sources.
>
> No problem, I understand your position.
>
> Lukas
>
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