What is private? was: hidden methods idea
R. A. Harmon
harmonra at webname.com
Thu Aug 20 14:46:39 UTC 1998
At 01:58 PM 8/19/98 -0700, Mike Klein wrote:
>Doesn't the browse already hide all methods that aren't in the currently
>selected protocol.... I have used the convention of "hiding" protocols by
>prepending the string 'zz ' to the protocol, thereby pushing it to the
>bottom of the list; a hack to be sure.
>
>More to the point would be tagging methods/protocols with semantic
>information that a browser could (in a context dependant fashion) then
>decide what to show and what to hide.
The following seems to me to be the wish list in displaying method selectors
in a browser:
- organize selectors in to categories.
- allow a selectors to be in multiple categories.
- allow easy display of all selectors.
- allow hierarchical display of selectors.
- do not restrict display of selectors.
- allow the display of selectors so as to minimize the window
space occupied by those selectors not needed for
normal usage of a class.
- allow different schemes of organization.
- allow easy extension of method organization and selector display.
- allow tagging methods/protocols with semantic information that a
browser could (in a context dependant fashion) then decide
what to show and what to hide.
If I missed an item or mis-stated one, chime in.
I think Dolphin Smalltalk has all of the above and allows one to easily
organize methods and view selectors.
I'd also like easy user configuration of the selector display. I didn't
notice if Dolphin Smalltalk has this.
I planned to implement the above in a browser and think it would require at
least a Category class and other supporting classes. This will be 3,789th
on my list. I would like an easily portable browser so that I may have
tools and facilities I'm familiar with in different dialects. The
Refactoring Browser seems a good choice. The ANSI stuff would ease its
porting, ergo an ANSI Refactoring Browser. An ANSI RB would be a good place
to implement the wish list above.
I think my list of things to do will require that I will be reincarnated --
multiple times. So many interesting projects, so few lives.
--
Richard A. Harmon "The only good zombie is a dead zombie"
harmonra at webname.com E. G. McCarthy
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