[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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