[squeak-dev] The Trunk: Environments-topa.56.mcz

Stéphane Rollandin lecteur at zogotounga.net
Tue Jan 27 07:33:39 UTC 2015


>     I'm unsure.
>     I _really_ like the idea of treating a namespace as a dictionary.
>
>
> To be pedantic, +0.5.  I like being able to use the read-only part of
> the Dictionary protocol on Environments.  It is the destructive
> update-in-place part at:put: et al that shouldn't be supported.
> Modification is something that Environment needs to control carefgully
> to maintain system integrity.

Isn't it the tradition of Smalltalk to be able to completely mess the 
system up by redefining a few methods, or using dangerous ones ?

Stef



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