[ENH][EXPERIMENTAL] Read only globals (was RE: Stability of Squeak)

Andreas Raab Andreas.Raab at gmx.de
Thu Aug 16 21:23:04 UTC 2001


Richard,

> What I was suggesting was a partition of the globals into
> ones that can be changed and ones that cannot.  If I'm reading
> this changeset correctly, which was hard because your MUA and
> mine somehow conspired to mangle it, it looks as though that
> should be possible.

Absolutely. I've just posted an update in the internal stream that makes
only Behaviors read-only (noticing that Transcript and a few others are
globals too ;-) The CS will come with the next round of updates.

> Of course, the rather pleasant paradox is that this changeset
> demonstrates why it can be a GOOD thing to let people change
> the system...

Heh, heh ;-)

Cheers,
  - Andreas





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