[KCP] SystemDictionary cleaning: Comments and design

Brent Vukmer bvukmer at blackboard.com
Tue Jun 17 14:58:27 UTC 2003


> 
> Sounds reasonable. And perhaps there is no "elegant way" to 
> get away from SystemDictionary (we need a name for the 
> *class* that represents the namespace) and Smalltalk (and we 
> need a handle on that *namespace* - and doing something like 
> "SystemDictionary root" or similar looks pretty darn ugly. 

How about a class named SqueakSystem.  Instead of a global, call
"SqueakSystem current".  An instance of SqueakSystem would be a proxy
that forwards to the collection of utility classes.



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