Tim, Stef,

Attached is my proposed solution to this problem. It consists of two parts:

#1: Radically changing the name lookup protocol to use #bindingOf: (and only
#bindingOf:). The attached changes do this without breaking anything as a
fallback-implementation of #scopeHas:ifTrue: has been left in Behavior.

Now we can use any object as name space imported to a class (e.g., 'pool)
which - incidentally - means that other classes can act as a pool
themselves. Bringing us to

#2: Use class variables for 'declarative pools'. In other words, make up a
class like:

Object subclass: #MyPool
	instanceVariableNames: ''
	classVariableNames: 'PoolVar1 PoolVar2'
	poolDictionaries: ''
	category: 'My Pools'

and then

MyPool class>>initialize
	"Initialize the pool"
	PoolVar1 := 123.
	PoolVar2 := #mumble.

Now you can use 'MyPool' as a pool dictionary wherever you want, e.g.,

Object subclass: #MyClass
	instanceVariableNames: ''
	classVariableNames: ''
	poolDictionaries: 'MyPool'
	category: ''

I've attached an example to show you how this feels. While I'm not saying
that one has to use the above style it certainly solves the problem of
managing pools in a more declarative way and combines both 'home' and
'initialization' of pools. And no more 'do you want to file out any pools
bla bla bla' ;-) It's just a regular dependency.

Cheers,
  - Andreas

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