[squeak-dev] Environment declarations vs bindings

Stéphane Rollandin lecteur at zogotounga.net
Sat Oct 1 07:05:24 UTC 2016


> In 15 years, I think I've had just one name collision between classes
> of different packages (neither of which used prefixes).  I think I
> simply renamed one of them.  Dynamic system.  With Environments, I
> would still have had to write some code to do various
> imports/exports/renames, etc.. and so it doesn't actually save me any
> development effort.  I guess it boils down to letting me keep pretty,
> but ambiguous, names in the code.  But, I actually prefer prefixes...
>
> Not trying to be a party pooper, but complexity is commonplace,
> simplicity is rare.  If we still have a simple system, we should value
> that aspect and try to keep it that way.  At least _optionally_...

+1

Stef



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