"Andreas Raab" <andreas.raab at gmx.de> wrote:

> > Should B3DPoolDefiner 'live' in the B3D package or the VM 
> > code package?
> 
> If it has to live in a single place then it should live in the B3D package
> and not the VM code package as VM building is in my understanding a
> relatively rare activity (well, not for the two of us but for most people
> ;-)
Well it was an easy case, of course, though not all of them are so
solvable. Using 'Smalltalk poolUsers' will get a list of all the
findable dictionaries that seem to be used as pools, along with user
classes and methods. Some of them are really quite ugly looking
collections of tentacles. Or eleventacles. 

>  Some time ago (in the age of 3.3a modules) I
> did a change which completely replaced all the variants of #scopeHas:ifTrue:
> /#at: / #associationAt: / #youNameIt with a single protocol for resolving a
> name - namely, #bindingOf: (which answers a binding -association or alike-
> for a given key or nil if it can't be resolved) and modified the compiler
> appropriately.
I think this sounds worth another look, especially if the KCP team can
make time to try it out. The current scheme actaully has a couple of
nasty loopholes I stumbled upon a while ago; I think I explained at
least some of them in mails back then.

The one advantage I think might attach to my suggestion is that it would
slide in with almost no changes and very little scope for mistakes
beyond needing to implement another method or two. Your suggestion would
be cleaner for the long run. A merge of the two might really solve some
problems - use the hierarchy of pooldefiner/sharedpool/whatever class to
combine the initialisation of the values and the #bindingOf: protocol to
clean up the needs and implementation. Simple to use, document and
explain; what a concept.

Then we beat up Goran (some more) to provide suitable dependency support
in SM1.1 and alakazaam, 'tis done.

tim 
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