[squeak-dev] tim rants (was Re: The Trunk: ToolBuilder-Kernel-pre.122.mcz)

tim Rowledge tim at rowledge.org
Wed Apr 25 19:35:47 UTC 2018



> On 25-04-2018, at 12:26 PM, Chris Muller <asqueaker at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> You think a new language feature with hidden magic complexity that
> makes one's code implicitly do extra things other than what it says
> will stop people from creating unnecessary getters and setters and
> only write code in a "good style"?

I don't think anything other than proper design & code review and teaching would stop people from writing poor code. And even then it's not a good bet. :-(


tim
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