[squeak-dev] Pluggable Morphs

Bert Freudenberg bert at freudenbergs.de
Tue Jan 4 10:41:54 UTC 2011


On 04.01.2011, at 00:45, Stéphane Rollandin wrote:

>> Wouldn't the pluggable Morphs be more flexible/powerful if they took blocks
>> instead of selectors?
> 
> Note that blocks do not serialize correctly: a Morph referencing a block can not be saved as a .morph file.

Not only that, blocks are much harder to debug. They're basically useless black boxes in inspectors or debuggers, whereas receiver+selector can be easily examined, changed, etc. Late binding wins, again ...

- Bert -





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