Am 01.08.2006 um 20:54 schrieb Damien Cassou:

> nicolas cellier wrote:
>> poolDicionaries would better be named sharedVariableDIctionary or  
>> sharedPool.
>> It enables your code to have Shared Global Variables, some kind of  
>> global variables (like Smalltalk) that are accessible only to  
>> restricted classes that declared it.
>> You get a perfect example with TextConstants. You can use text  
>> constants like CR as a global variable when you declare it  as  
>> poolDictionary.
>
> Thank you for this explanation. Another question: where are those  
> shared variables declared ? For example, where is TextConstants ?  
> Is it just in the image as this, or declared in a class ?

They used to be simply dictionaries defined in some class. This did  
not scale well, so most have been converted to SharedPool subclasses.

- Bert -