Traits for a Thesis?

Hernan Wilkinson hernan.wilkinson at gmail.com
Mon Jun 25 11:53:06 UTC 2007


Hi Stef,
 isn't it there a work about that? I thought somebody did it...
 Are you suggesting rewrite the Collection hierarchy (keeping the same
abstractions with the same protocol) or are you suggesting creating a brand
new set of classes? (I think both are good for a thesis...)

 Hernan.

On 6/23/07, stephane ducasse <stephane.ducasse at free.fr> wrote:
>
> Hi claudio
>
> What would be great is to redesign from scratch a collection library
> or build on top of the library of damien to make sure that
> one day we could replace the stream library. The results of Nile are
> showing that traits are really worth. The design is nice
> and the composition of traits working well.
>
> I would be really interested in learning from a new collection
> library. Damien did something good:
>         - he started to write a lot of tests
>         - then fixed some bugs
>         - then design nile so that the tests passed as well on nile and
> the
> squeak lib.
>
> Stef
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > Two challenging topics on traits:
> >
> >       - A collection hierarchy made in Traits (in the similar fashion
> > advocated by Nathanel Schaerli in his PhD)
> >
> >       - A smalltalk-kernel only based on traits (cf. Daniel's email
> below)
> >
> > By the way, we should keep in touch, I will be in south america at
> > the end of this year, and will visit Argentina even if I will be
> > based in Chile. We should keep in touch since I am working also
> > with traits.
> >
> > Alexandre
> >
> >
> >> Hello, we (Nicolas Butarelli and Claudio Acciaresi) are from
> >> Buenos Aires,  Argentina, we're trying to make a thesis at the
> >> University of Buenos Aires.
> >>
> >>
> >> Our initial idea is to reimplement a model using traits, we would
> >> like to know what your opinions are (if you think that this is
> >> useful, etc) about this idea and which models do you think that
> >> would be nice to rethink using traits.
> >>
> >>
> >> Any material related to this idea will be really useful.
> >>
> >> Any opinion on this idea will also be useful, if you know anther
> >> idea related to traits, please tell us.
> >>
> >>
> >> Thanks a lot.
> >>
> >> Nicolas and Claudio.
> >>
> >
> >
> > --
> > _,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:
> > Alexandre Bergel  http://www.bergel.eu
> > ^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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