Traits in use (was Re: Re: Squeak and Namespaces)

tim Rowledge tim at rowledge.org
Fri Dec 1 19:45:24 UTC 2006


On 1-Dec-06, at 11:32 AM, Lukas Renggli wrote:

>
> OmniBrowser has a small extension in 3.9 that shows imported methods
> in italic, redefined and locally defined ones with normal fonts. This
> helps a little bit, but I agree it does not help more than for toy
> examples: very soon you end up not understanding anymore what is going
> on.

Anything relying on extremely minor cues like that is not going to  
work for many people. It has to be clear and informative and include  
added/changed menus etc. Anything much less than full integration  
with documentation to assist will just mean that at the very best a  
new capability like this will get ignored. Most likely it will be  
misused through ignorance and cause bugs down the line. Surely nobody  
wants that?

tim
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