Do you think that squeak is long overdue for a Refactoring only pass? -- Morphic

stéphane ducasse ducasse at iam.unibe.ch
Tue Jan 24 20:44:11 UTC 2006


On 24 janv. 06, at 20:48, David P Harris wrote:

> stéphane ducasse wrote:
>
>>> Yup. Personally, I think:
>>> - Start refactoring Collections and Morphic using Traits - I think
>>> these two packages have a lot of code duplication all over the place
>>> that could be neatly cleaned up in that way;
>>
>>
>> I would not so that people do not feel prisoner of traits.
>> Our goal is not to impose traits.
>
> But could we not revert back just by flattening the Traits version?

yes we can :)

>   It would seem to be a good excercise anyway.  Morphic is (said)  
> to be due for a rewrite, and Traits would appear to be a good  
> method, and the effort would be a good trial of Traits.

Yes but as I said. We are responsible (or feel it) for 3.9 and we  
start to be exhausted.
Marcus should really focus on his PhD and I should slow down with  
harvesting. At the end of the day
I would like to code something fun :).
Or clean just for fun and let other deal with the mess of  
integrating, complains..... you see just
the fame, glory and fun. :)

Stef




More information about the Squeak-dev mailing list