<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 2:07 PM, Hannes Hirzel <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hannes.hirzel@gmail.com">hannes.hirzel@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On 5/3/10, Eliot Miranda <<a href="mailto:eliot.miranda@gmail.com">eliot.miranda@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
</div><div class="im">> On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 8:36 AM, Travis Griggs <<a href="mailto:travisgriggs@gmail.com">travisgriggs@gmail.com</a>>wrote:<br>
</div><div class="im">>> I didn't implement them originally,<br>
<br>
> I came up with the idea and implemented it together with Steve Dahl for<br>
> VisualWorks 30 where we first used them extensively for menu augmentation on<br>
> package load. So if you want someone to blame, blame me :)<br>
><br>
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</div>When was that? (VW3.0)<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>VW3.0 was released in 1998.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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According to Lukas Renggli <method tags> were introduced in Squeak<br>
3.9, probably end of 2006 (see <a href="http://ftp.squeak.org/3.9/" target="_blank">http://ftp.squeak.org/3.9/</a> ), to go<br>
with the "modern world"...<br>
<br>
However if you check out in the image they are not really used besides<br>
for the primitives.<br>
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I would like to see a menu implementation and Preferences using them.<br>
They might be useful for the HelpSystem (to tag methods of a certain<br>
importance as 'entry points' for code reading for example).<br>
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--Hannes<br>
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