[Seaside] [OT] Why use an image file ? (was Re: Seaside & Ruby
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Pavel Krivanek
squeak3 at continentalbrno.cz
Thu Sep 8 14:03:40 CEST 2005
> The problem is not the image, it is a problem to do with naming called
> the problem of "ambient authority". Classes, global variables, and
> state are all addressed by a flat namespace, and the names are not
> well-chosen. The same problem is suffered in Java, although to a
> lesser degree, even though their naming scheme is hierarchical,
> because class equivalence is based on class names.
The solution exists - Self. This prototype-based Smalltalk defines
namespace for every single object and there can be (theoretically) more
separated applications in the image. And the language is simpler than
original Smalltalk-80.
-- Pavel
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