About removing global variables

stéphane ducasse ducasse at iam.unibe.ch
Wed Dec 1 08:15:46 UTC 2004


> Hi Stef,
>
> Oops, no kicking intended.

No problem this was just for my ego :)
And I sincerly asked because I was in the mud of SystemDictionary and 
other...

>  The problem of removing (or replacing) global variables is a good one 
> but one that doesn't stop at the point of removing Smalltalk and 
> moving the bindings into Object or some other place. The point is that 
> Smalltalk is a "name for the environment" that a class lives in and 
> removing the "global" doesn't remove the environment - just its name.

Of course.. :)
Still I want to check how classVar are handled.

> Cheers,
>  - Andreas




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