SystemNavigation and deprecated methods

Joshua 'Schwa' Gargus schwa at cc.gatech.edu
Tue Aug 12 15:01:20 UTC 2003


On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 09:32:46AM +0200, Andreas Raab wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > I agree (and I already asked for feedback on the topic) that 
> > SystemNavigation new doSomething is bad.
> > Then having a global variable is not good for several reasons: 
> > (1) we do not have that good tools to check their definition, 
> > state...(don't tell me that we have inspector)
> 
> And like I was saying SystemNavigation is stateless ;-) BTW, I'm not sure
> what you mean by not having good tools to check the definition of globals.
> Have you tried to hit Cmd-B (Alt-B) on a global? I find this to be as good
> as for browsing classes.

Yes, but how do you find out that that a particular global exists if
you don't see it there in front of you, just waiting to be Alt-Bed?
Granted, the class comment for SystemNavigation could prominently
advertise the default global SystemNavigator.

Joshua



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