Method source pointer encoding (was: Squat progress 7 August2003: method IDs)

Stephane Ducasse ducasse at iam.unibe.ch
Sat Aug 9 19:46:34 UTC 2003


Hi Andreas and other

	The Simplest and Most Important Thing to do is to figure out how any 
new
	scheme can be used in parallel to the existing source code management. 
As I
	have learned (the hard way; and I'm pretty sure Craig will agree on 
this -
	if not today than surely later ;) trying to change these kinds of 
things is
	a real pain if it means you have to find and fix all of those implicit
	assumptions in the system while you're trying to come up with something
	better.

We (with Roel) got already some discussions, not to change the format 
but, to
provide a better interface than these "at: 1" and "at:2" everywhere. So 
we were thinking
about creating an object responsible for managing the files. This would 
then help
people to change the format.

if you have any suggestion please say it.

Stef



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