[squeak-dev] Environment declarations vs bindings

tim Rowledge tim at rowledge.org
Mon Oct 3 18:38:13 UTC 2016


> On 02-10-2016, at 10:49 PM, Stéphane Rollandin <lecteur at zogotounga.net> wrote:
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>> There must of course be a decent manual (or collection of writings that constitute a manual) because *nobody* would do something stupid like adding a bunch of code that doesn’t have an obvious reason for being or an explanation of how to use it, or examples. It just couldn’t happen.
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> Ok, I know this is Squeak's tradition.
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> The fact is I'm genuinely interested in Environments, as I used to be interested in Traits but never did anything with it because of the missing support.
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> What a waste.

Exactly my problem. This was a lot of work and involved a lot of deep futzing and must have had some serious discussion about the design, intent, implementation and usage before anyone agreed to bring it into the main system - surely? Without tool support, examples, descriptions and so on it will end up the same way as Traits and so many other neat ideas. 

It doesn’t matter a damn how good an idea is - if it can’t be described so other people can make sense of it and use it (hmm, we could call it ‘documentation’) then it doesn’t exist in any meaningful sense.


tim
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