[squeak-dev] Smalltalk at: #Foo - needs clarification

stephane ducasse stephane.ducasse at gmail.com
Wed Oct 6 14:36:10 UTC 2010



> Hello,
> 
> just wanna ask, is this part of API will be deprecated in future?
> (in Pharo, it put under 'to clean later' category).
> 
> And if yes, then what will be correct (dialect-agnostic) way to access globals?
> 
> Smalltalk globals at: #Foo ?
> 
> I thought that #at: #at:put:  (and some others)
> historically is a part of Smalltalk protocol, and should stay there to
> support legacy code and cross-dialect code.
> 
> 
> What you thoughts about it?

legacy you said! Let us move on. We keep to help people migrating. 
Now we should avoid it as much as possible even Smalltalk globals at:. It should be more
	self class environment at:

In VisualWorks I'm not sure that Smalltalk at: make sense. 


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