On Tuesday, August 12, 2003, at 01:22 AM, Daniel Vainsencher wrote:

> On the new/default/global issue - at some point the KCP said that
> making SysNavs behavior class side is bad. Now you're saying that
> Globals are bad (or as Andreas notes, that non-class globals are bad).
> Unless you want Squrak to lose its conciseness, something has to
> give. And conciseness in programming languages is power.

Personally, I'd like to see something like 'self navigator' be the 
default way of getting a SystemNavigator. Then there's lots of room for 
overriding the default behaviour, in sort of the same way that classes 
can specify which compiler class should be used to compile their 
methods.

Colin