Do you have a specific use case in mind? It is said that any problem in
CS can be solved using another level of indirection, but what problem
are we solving?

Might help us think of a shorter, more precise name...

Daniel

Colin Putney <cputney at wiresong.ca> wrote:
> 
> On Tuesday, August 12, 2003, at 01:22 AM, Daniel Vainsencher wrote:
> 
> > On the new/default/global issue - at some point the KCP said that
> > making SysNavs behavior class side is bad. Now you're saying that
> > Globals are bad (or as Andreas notes, that non-class globals are bad).
> > Unless you want Squrak to lose its conciseness, something has to
> > give. And conciseness in programming languages is power.
> 
> Personally, I'd like to see something like 'self navigator' be the 
> default way of getting a SystemNavigator. Then there's lots of room for 
> overriding the default behaviour, in sort of the same way that classes 
> can specify which compiler class should be used to compile their 
> methods.
> 
> Colin