Andreas,

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Hi Bill -

> Now for the controversial part: I have a concern about Tweak's
compiler
> extensions. At STS05, I saw a demo of Tweak's bleeding edge state at
> the time, and could not help thinking the extensions were creating an
> avoidable complexity, or were at least in the wrong place. If you want
> to simplify life for beginners, then I think you could manage the
event
> wiring for them w/o forcing it on advanced users.

This is an interesting question: I'd be curious why you feel the event
wiring is forced on advanced users, since you can always replace, e.g.,

Foo>>onBar: arg
<on: bar>

with:

Foo>>initialize

self startScript: #onBar: when: {self. #bar}.
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That helps.  Language extensions still strike me as a code smell, but an
alternative is encouraging.



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And if you have a proposal for how one can avoid the two problems that
annotations are addressing (the ability to have multiple methods react
to the same event
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I must be missing something.  Can't the existing events system handle
that?


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 and the ability to avoid "extra" initializers to set
up the wiring) I'd really be interested. 
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My preference would be to put any such conveniences in a GUI editor or
similar programming tool rather than alter the language to support it.

Regards,

Bill





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