>
> Explicitly modelling instance variables would also be useful, at least
> from a versioning standpoint.  You'll notice that in your snippet of
> declarative specification you have InstanceVariable as a separate
> declaration, whereas in mine (for now) inst vars are part of the class
> declaration.  Among other things, this doesn't merge properly (if Colin
> and I concurrently add an inst var to the same class, the conflict 
> would
> have to be manually resolved).

So having explicit instance variable is really simple to add.

>
> The hard part here is that if variables (class, pool, instance) are
> treated separately from their class declaration, they can be in 
> different
> packages - and currently in Squeak there's no way to mark that (for
> methods we can abuse method categories, but no equivalent metadata 
> exists
> for variables).

This is clear but we can imagine a normal use for now and see later. 
Once you have
explicit support for package then the package becomes the palce where 
you want to attached this information. Note that having a package 
object would solve a lot of problems that will arrive for Pool and 
Global for example


> If anyone has a brilliant suggestion of how to resolve this with 
> minimal
> changes to the kernel, I'll be delighted to modify PackageInfo and
> Monticello to suit.

Just having a package, bundle classes containing other declaration 
would be enough.
I guess.

I will discuss with roel and alex because we need also a declarative 
syntax for the classBoxes.

Stef



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