Hi Igor,<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 2:47 AM, Igor Stasenko <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:siguctua@gmail.com">siguctua@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Hello,<br>
<br>
i just thought, that in order to get down to a minimal kernel image,<br>
it would be nice to move all Morphic globals into a shared pool.<br>
<br>
Things like, World, ActiveWorld<br>
could be placed into a MorphicPool class.<br>
<br>
Then we can make an easy transition<br>
1. add this pool to classes which using that global & recompile them<br>
<br>
2. for classes, which should have no dependency from Morphic,<br>
use a messages like<br>
<br>
Object >> currentWorld<br>
^ (Smalltalk at: #MorphicPool ifAbsent: [ self error: 'bummer' ])<br>
currentWorld .<br>
<br>
Then, i hope, you can unload the Morphic using MC and it will leave no<br>
trace in an image (or at least less trace than usual ;).<br>
<br>
Same could be applied to Graphics package (to get rid a Display global)<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Good idea. This is a little like a poor man's namespaces. It suggests the following cheap hack namespaces:</div>
<div><br></div><div>Inside Smalltalk all the Morphic class names are #'Morphic.Morph' #'Morphic.TheWorldMenu' etc. Inside the MorphicNamespace shared pool they are #Morph #TheWorldMenu etc. The bindings for these would have to be shared between Smalltalk and the MorphicNamespace shared pool. I guess something like a smart subclass of VariableBinding that when decompiling printed itself differently depending on whether its home pool was in scope or not might make the sleight-of-hand invisible. You'd also need to hack the browsers to prune the Morphic. prefix when the selected category began with Morphic. Is this a primrose path, a slippery slope or a worth-while experiment?</div>
<div><br></div><div>best</div><div>Eliot</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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Best regards,<br>
Igor Stasenko AKA sig.<br>
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