Persistent Workspace
Lex Spoon
lex at cc.gatech.edu
Fri Mar 5 16:37:51 UTC 2004
I simply want to have variables around at all.
I happen not to use very many images at once, and so I can't honestly
comment on what will work will for sharing things among multiple images.
I don't know that workspace variables necessarily need to get copied or
not copied in PersistentWorkspace. Like you say, people don't expect
this for class variables, either.
-Lex
Trygve Reenskaug <trygver at ifi.uio.no> wrote:
> My PersistentWorkspace lives as a Text on disk. This makes it easy to move
> it from one image to another.
>
> A class also lives in disk (in a changes file or something) and can easily
> be filed into another image.
>
> A workspace variable is like an instance (or class) variable. I guess it
> would be easy to store its specification on disk. What would be stored
> would be the name of a slot, not its value.
>
> Values in a Workspace could be saved with e.g., storeOn: and read with
> readFrom: This _could_ be done i a PersistentWorkspace, but not in a class.
> Is that what you mean?
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