<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"><html><head><meta content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"></head><body ><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><div>Hi Foks,<br></div><div><br></div><div>TL;DR; is it a "BAD THING TO DO" to add a class side method to ProtoObject?<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><blockquote style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 7px; background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245);"><div><div>ProtoObject >> help<br></div><div><br></div><div>^'foo'<br></div><div><br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Now every class A to Z in the system has a built in help message:<br></div><div><br></div><blockquote style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 7px; background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245);"><div><div>AColorSelectorMorph help --> 'foo'<br></div><div>ZoomMorph help --> 'foo'<br></div><div><br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>"Smalltalk" is not a class, so figure that out later..plus packages etc.<br></div><div><br></div><blockquote style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 7px; background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245);"><div><div>Smalltalk help<br></div><div>SmalltalkImage(Object)>>doesNotUnderstand: #help<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></blockquote><div>Longer version<br></div><div><br></div><div>I am going to dabble with my idea of re-working help in Smalltalk.<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Each Class will respond to the "help" class side method , so I figured start at the top with ProtoObject<br></div><div><br></div><div>I am going to try a Visitor/Decorator pattern for every class in the system<br></div><blockquote style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 7px; background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245);"><div><div>ProtoObject >> help<br></div><div><br></div><div>|help|<br></div><div><br></div><div>help := MySoonToBeCodedVisitorClass visit: self.<br></div><div><br></div><div>^help<br></div></div></blockquote><div>Initially, just return the Class Comments, but with the MySoonToBeCodedVisitorClass later decorating the class comment and returning information from other sources too.<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>BUT!!! I do not want to pollute ProtoObject if it is agains decorum.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks for your time</div></div><br></body></html>