3.6a - SystemNavigation instance?

Stephane Ducasse ducasse at iam.unibe.ch
Tue Jul 8 15:51:41 UTC 2003


The more I think about the more I think you are right.....
Who said we are not learning every day.

I will try to find some times to fix that but I cannot get my hand on a 
recent updates image (connection too slow here).
So if you or somebody else wants to fix that I will review it.

Stef
On Monday, July 7, 2003, at 11:15 AM, Ingo Hohmann wrote:

> Hi Stephane,
>
> creating 'throw away' objects seems very strange to me.
>
> I guess what _I_ would like most from a usage point of view would be 
> to have class side methods, so that it wouldn't look so much different 
> from the usage of the Smalltalk variable ... (of course that's just me 
> newbie ;-)
>
> But having SystemNavigation default, and it being documented, would 
> work, for me, too.
>
> Stephane Ducasse wrote:
>> Hi ingo
>> for now SystemNavigation new works.
>
> That's what I did, but with the feeling "Oh well, it works, I will 
> find out how to do it right later"
>
>> To check why browse the class SystemNavigation, clcik on the class 
>> button and look on the instance creation protocol.
> >
>> Now a deeper answer, this is true that I'm not really satisfied to 
>> have to create an instance all the time, so
>> I do not know what the other think but turning SystemNavigation into 
>> a singleton for now could be good.
>> SystemNavigation default could work well
>
> Ingo
>
>



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