3.6 "full" packages

Lex Spoon lex at cc.gatech.edu
Thu Jul 31 15:41:43 UTC 2003


Stephane Ducasse <ducasse at iam.unibe.ch> wrote:
> Indeed why not cleaning it on the way too...
> What would be good is to avoid to have to parse method body to get the 
> method and args of the method and to be able to add any meta 
> information (time, author) and not using a rigid format.
> This is one weakness of the chunk format.
> 
> Still with the following approach if you have the declarative object 
> you can load a code without installing it. and if you want to have that 
> with the chunk format for class you have to introduce
> PseudoClass too. So the question is really what should be the 
> precondition we want in terms of code representation.

True, but things like PseudoClass aren't a big deal to implement and in
fact someone has already implemented them for Squeak.  People
overestimate the difficulty of parsing the handfull of chunk-types that
the a changeset can emit.

>From scratch, your way looks better.

Lex



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