Do you think that squeak is long overdue for a Refactoring only pass? -- Morphic

David P Harris dpharris at telus.net
Tue Jan 24 19:48:01 UTC 2006


stéphane ducasse wrote:

>> Yup. Personally, I think:
>> - Start refactoring Collections and Morphic using Traits - I think
>> these two packages have a lot of code duplication all over the place
>> that could be neatly cleaned up in that way;
>
>
> I would not so that people do not feel prisoner of traits.
> Our goal is not to impose traits.

But could we not revert back just by flattening the Traits version?  It 
would seem to be a good excercise anyway.  Morphic is (said) to be due 
for a rewrite, and Traits would appear to be a good method, and the 
effort would be a good trial of Traits. 

David





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