On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 2:07 PM, Hannes Hirzel <hannes.hirzel at gmail.com>wrote:

> On 5/3/10, Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 8:36 AM, Travis Griggs <travisgriggs at gmail.com
> >wrote:
> >> I didn't implement them originally,
>
> > I came up with the idea and implemented it together with Steve Dahl for
> > VisualWorks 30 where we first used them extensively for menu augmentation
> on
> > package load.  So if you want someone to blame, blame me :)
> >
>
> When was that? (VW3.0)
>

VW3.0 was released in 1998.


>
> According to Lukas Renggli <method tags> were introduced in Squeak
> 3.9, probably end of 2006 (see http://ftp.squeak.org/3.9/ ), to go
> with the "modern world"...
>
> However if you check out in the image they are not really used besides
> for the primitives.
>
> I would like to see a menu implementation and Preferences using them.
> They might be useful for the HelpSystem (to tag methods of a certain
> importance as 'entry points' for code reading for example).
>
> --Hannes
>
>
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