Quick comparison of two Namespaces proposals
Keith Hodges
keith_hodges at yahoo.co.uk
Thu Sep 20 04:16:43 UTC 2007
With st/x I used to struggle with dependencies between packages which
included references to globals/classes. To avoid any such early bound
references I used to define a class called CLASS which you could use as
CLASS Array
CLASS String
as a short hand for Smalltalk at: #Array etc. This worked very well for me.
so thinking out load if my CLASS behaviour could be added to Class so that
Class WASession -> WASession
and we define WA similarly, then
WA Session -> WASession
If we make WA the current 'in' namespace, then Class could take that
into account, so that
Class Session -> WASession
for tool support, each prefixed class would need to know its
prefix.namespace so that tools could show the class name in browsers
without the prefix.
WASession-namespace
^WA
its late....
Keith
>
> > +10000 for:
> > self add: (Kernel Array new: 4).
> > This mechanism preseves the elegant foundation of Smalltalk:
> 'Everyting is an Object, which receives a messages and returns an object'.
> > In this (Dan's ?) solution, the implementation is late bound and
> can use the same lookup algorithm as used for messages .
> > The other solutions lack this elegance.
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