Q: Squeak and scientific applications

Ned Konz ned at bike-nomad.com
Sat Jul 26 22:45:31 UTC 2003


On Saturday 26 July 2003 03:01 pm, Joshua 'Schwa' Gargus wrote:
> I spent a bit of time bringing
> http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/464 up to date, including adding
> a link to Ned's tutorial.
>
> > The code will need minor tweaking to live cleanly with the
> > rename of TestInterpreterPlugin to SmartSyntaxInterpreterPlugin
> > sometime before 3.7.

Yes, the SpreadPlugin will need to be changed, and the tutorial will 
have to change with it.

> I don't know if you have to remove TestInterpreterPlugin at the
> beginning of the 3.7 cycle.  Why not let it be deprecated, and
> remove it around the time of 3.7 final?
>
> Speaking of renaming parts of the code generation apparatus, what
> about renaming #initialiseModule to #initializeModule to match the
> spelling in the rest of the image?  I was pulling out hair for a
> while trying to figure out why my plugin wasn't being initialized.

Of course, someone could hack CCodeGenerator or TMethod to translate 
initializeModule to initialiseModule, or at least to warn about it.

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