Personal feelings Re: [squeak-dev] Loading Xtreams-Xtra into trunk broken

Frank Shearar frank.shearar at angband.za.org
Thu May 5 12:56:29 UTC 2011


On 2011/05/05 13:24, Edgar J. De Cleene wrote:
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> On 5/5/11 9:02 AM, "Levente Uzonyi"<leves at elte.hu>  wrote:
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>> These are some of the symptoms of the lack of the tool support for
>> underscores in selectors.
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> We real Squeakers do not use underscores...
> It's our view really ?
> I email private to Martin some time ago when he did his first port of
> Xtreams telling he should avoid underscores for no troubles.

This fake Squeaker would be more than happy to see the whole underscore 
as assignment bite the dust. But that's a deeply personal opinion, and 
mainly I want things to Just Work.

Helping fix the lack of tool support would help us all work together, 
without ever needing to decide who should with the "underscores or not" 
argument.

frank

> But we are so few that we would have to provide the tools for people coming
> from Pharo, VW, etc.
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> Now you was in Board with Colin, Chris, Bert,Randall,Jecel.
> Like know the agenda, where Board feels Squeak go and how we could help.
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> And for us which have time but not the required skills, be kind and teach.
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> Edgar



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