[KCP] SystemChangeNotifications: Current state and some code

Hannes Hirzel hannes.hirzel.squeaklist at bluewin.ch
Tue Jul 22 23:38:21 UTC 2003


Daniel Vainsencher wrote:

> When I go looking for abstractions to reuse, I am less likely to reuse
> one that has a namespace prefix because it is "proclaiming" to be
> non-generic. So especially for classes that abstract something that may
> be widely useful, it is important to not discourage reuse in this way.
> 
> Thinking about KCP stuff that is going into the image, I think it should
> definitely not use "namespace" prefixes.
> 
> Daniel
> 

This is a convincing argument. It basically means that there is
a set of core classes which have no prefix. KCP works on these
classes.

--Hannes



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