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I've always wondered why people tried to put so much code in a
workspace where it remains anonymous and is so easily misplaced.<br>
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Cheers,<br>
Bob<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 9/30/13 4:44 PM, Chris Muller wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">Why not just define a class called MyWorkspace and you'll have a
"workspace tool" that can have multiple "named" workspaces (the
class-side method names) and even let you Compose Methods (call those
workspaces, by name, from other workspaces). Syntax highlighting is
on by default in said browser. Did I mention these workspaces can be
verisoned with full SCM capability? :)
Workspace is not a CodeHolder.
On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 11:05 PM, Jeff Gonis <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:jeff.gonis@gmail.com"><jeff.gonis@gmail.com></a> wrote:
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On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 9:45 PM, David T. Lewis <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:lewis@mail.msen.com"><lewis@mail.msen.com></a> wrote:
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And I will agree to pretend that it was morally justified. Which in this
case might actually be so ;-)
I use workspaces for all sorts of things unrelated to "coding". But
perhaps some creative
person could come up with a convenient way to apply syntax highlighting to
specific portions
of a workspace? It might be nice if I could have a workspace that contains
my grocery shopping
list and does syntax highlighting on only the portions of the shopping
list that I actually
intended to be interpreted as Smalltalk expressions. But I would be very
annoyed if some of
my workspaces started giving syntax errors related to toothpaste, toilet
paper, and six-packs
of beer.
Or perhaps a smart workspace could distinguish the difference between
sections of text
that were probably intended as Smalltalk, versus text that was more likely
intended as
a shopping list?
Dave
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It seems to me like Squeak just needs some different tools. A workspace
strikes me as specifically related to code. I mean the right click menu
mentions inspecting, debugging, printing, etc. All things that have as
little relevance to your grocery list as syntax highlighting would.
If you need a quick grocery list, why don't we knock up a "Todo" list app,
throw it on Squeakmap, and have install a menu entry when you load it.
We could grab Cuis' text editor project, and throw it up on Squeakmap, and
now people who wanted to write up a quick message or blog post wouldn't have
to abuse what is clearly a code tool.
Rather than trying to overload what a workspace recognizes as text or code,
we could just add tools more suited to the work you want while making the
workspace more suited to the job it was designed for. Coding.
Note that my tone is somewhat provocative here, deliberately so, but hey you
guys started it, what with your drone strikes and all!
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