<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 3:04 PM, Chris Muller <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:asqueaker@gmail.com" target="_blank">asqueaker@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">And, also, let me pose an additional question: Why do we need<br>
'exports' at all? The use-case we're solving is name-disambiguation,<br>
period. Exports seems to be about making certain classes<br>
"unimportable", e.g., "private".<br>
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Why are exports needed at all?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Name disambiguation is *one* of the use cases. Private classes is another one. I'd really like to be able to set up an Xtreams environment properly.</div>
<div>See the discussion on Xtreams here: <a href="http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2012-June/164605.html">http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2012-June/164605.html</a><br></div></div>
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