FYI

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---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Frank Shearar frank.shearar@gmail.com Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 13:28:16 +0100 Subject: Re: [Cuis] [Philosophy] Do we need pool dictionaries? To: Discussion of Cuis Smalltalk cuis@jvuletich.org

On 30 July 2013 12:57, Juan Vuletich juan@jvuletich.org wrote: .... ...

Hi Casey,

I don't like pooldictionaries. They look like "hidden globals" to me, and they are as bad as regular globals. Maybe there were good reasons for them 30 years ago, but I don't see any today, except for compatibility.

Cuis base image doesn't include any pool dictionary. See 'Smalltalk poolUsers' (unfortunately broken in Squeak).

No more! Environments-fbs.22 fixes it so you can say

Smalltalk globals poolUsers

which says, in the "base" 4.5,

a Dictionary(#BalloonEngineConstants->an OrderedCollection(#BalloonEngine an OrderedCollection()) #ChronologyConstants->an OrderedCollection(#Date #Week #DateAndTime #Time #Duration #Month #TimeZone an OrderedCollection()) #CustomEventsRegistry->an OrderedCollection(an OrderedCollection()) #EventSensorConstants->an OrderedCollection(#KeyboardInputInterpreter #DisplayHostWindow #MorphicUnknownEvent #EventSensor #UserInputEvent #TextConverter #HandMorph an OrderedCollection()) #GZipConstants->an OrderedCollection(#GZipWriteStream #GZipReadStream an OrderedCollection()) #ImageImports->an OrderedCollection(an OrderedCollection()) #MCMockAPoolDictionary->an OrderedCollection(#MCMockClassB an OrderedCollection()) #References->an OrderedCollection(#Player an OrderedCollection()) #SharedPool->an OrderedCollection(an OrderedCollection()) #TextConstants->an OrderedCollection(#DisplayText #LimitingLineStreamWrapper #MultiTextComposer #MultiNewParagraph #TextLine #CharacterBlock #TextAlignment #SegmentScanner #HostFont #StrikeFont #TextLineInterval #CompositionScanner #PostscriptCharacterScanner #Text #MultiCharacterScanner #TextStyle #CharacterScanner an OrderedCollection()) #Undeclared->an OrderedCollection(an OrderedCollection()) #ZipConstants->an OrderedCollection(#ZipWriteStream #ZipEncoder #DeflateStream an OrderedCollection()) #ZipFileConstants->an OrderedCollection(#ZipArchive #ZipArchiveMember an OrderedCollection()) )

frank