On 5/1/14, Tobias Pape <Das.Linux at gmx.de> wrote:
>
> On 01.05.2014, at 23:14, Chris Muller <asqueaker at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> I'd vote for Symbols and _keeping_ the IdentityDictionary
>>
>> May I ask why?
>
> Gut feeling, primarily.
> First, I think symbols are the right thing to identify Environments, I
> think.
> They are symbolic representers (is this a word) for their namespaces.
> And I think, when using symbols, IdentityDictionary comes naturally.
>
> Furthermore, I would avoid any strings (and if we must, have special
> selectors for them. (picking up your example:
> (Environment named: #Smalltalk) but
> (Environment namedFromString: 'Smalltalk')

+1
>
> Best
> 	-Tobias
>
> PS: It is frecking dangerous to have Symbols be actually Strings in
> disguise
>     once you want to do anything portable. I'm looking at you, class
> categories!
>