Keith Hodges wrote:
> A slightly less radical solution which would offer the same benefit
> would be if the compiler stopped parsing if it encountered six or so
> comment quotes on a line like so. (perhaps this could be reduced to two)
> 
> """"""

Upon reading this, I thought to myself: Each class has a classComment,
which has its own stamp, and browsers have a separate pane for editing
classComments. Perhaps methods could have a comment instance variable,
too, and the browsers could let you edit the comment separately from the
source code!

Then I went looking. CompiledMethod is a direct subclass of ByteArray,
and has no instance variables.

This is one of the weaker areas of Smalltalk: its self-representation is
not particularly object-oriented.

Regards,
  Tony
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