On 8 January 2014 20:05, Colin Putney <colin at wiresong.com> wrote:
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> On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 1:35 PM, Frank Shearar <frank.shearar at gmail.com>
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>> That doesn't make me any happier :) OK, so in my other mail my worry
>> of multiple #unload sends won't come to pass, but the N lookups for
>> the _usual_ code path just smells bad. I don't see why we shouldn't
>> keep just-this-class as the default behaviour - it's really quite deep
>> in the bowels of the system - and keep yours & Colin's unload-em-all
>> as a _user level_ optimisation. It's great for the _user_ to be able
>> to do this.
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> Mine? No... I'm willing to listen to the argument, but so far I haven't
> heard one.

Sure you have: "there is no sensible use case for deleting a class
when it has subclasses: you leave the inheritance hierarchy broken".

> And even given a irrefutable arguments, I'd say wait until 4.6.

Why did I think you'd actually done that in the shrink.st? You don't!
Yeah, ok. But strongly agree re "wait until 4.6".

frank