Need feedback on one idea

Hannes Hirzel hannes.hirzel.squeaklist at bluewin.ch
Sat Sep 6 15:30:49 UTC 2003


ducasse wrote:
> Hi
> 
> after seeing a talk at ESUG, I was wondering how difficult it would be 
> to remove classVar and Pool from classes and replace them with namespace 
> variables. I would like to give a try just to see all the problems. I 
> already have my own list:
>     - I'm not sure I would like to have namespace import for example
>     - how to initialize variables....
> 
> Do you have any experience/idea/related work on this topic?
> 
> Stef
> 
> 
> 
Which advantages do you see in removing classVars and pool vars?

What do you mean by namespace variables? There are no namespaces
in Squeak yet?

Perhaps it might be an idea to have some statitics about the usage
of classVars and poolvars. They do not seem to be used very often.

--Hannes



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