----- Original Message -----
From: <danielv at netvision.net.il>
To: <squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
Sent: Friday, October 25, 2002 11:48 AM
Subject: Re: A refactoring of SM?


> It's not quite clear what you mean.
>
> If you mean being able to load code in a passive manner, so it can be
> examined without being active, that's what I'm proposing, and should be
> a simple matter of integrating the FCB.

Yes, I would think that would be relatively straightforward and should prove
to be very useful.  Even more useful would be to allow using the Refactory
tools
on these things ( I do this in Oasis, and that has proven very useful many
times ).

> If you're proposing (as I suspect) to make it possible to have
> simultanous versions of the same code coexist actively in the image,
> that is not what I'm proposing, I don't know how to implement this, and
> honestly am not convinced it's worth the mental overhead from working in
> such an environment.

Fair enough!  This is definitely much more work to implement than using
passive code.  However, I've been exploring this option for quite a long
time and it does have enough going for it to at least keep me interested.

gotta run,

- les