hi andreas

what is the difference between a CharacterScanner and a  
multiCharacterScanner?
I imagine that this is not just scanning more than one character so  
what was the plan?

Stef

On 6 sept. 07, at 17:59, Andreas Raab wrote:

> Andrew Tween wrote:
>> You could look at the CharacterScanner and MultiCharacterScanner  
>> hierarchies.
>
> That's probably not worth it. MultiCharacterScanner was written to  
> replace CharacterScanner, a step which simply was never completed  
> in Squeak. Yes, you can probably use traits to squeeze out some  
> duplicated code but if you'd seriously consider using both you  
> wouldn't have started the duplicated hierarchy to begin with. It's  
> entire purpose was to replace CharacterScanner in situ.
>
> If Alejandro is looking for challenges, here are two:
> 1) The metaclass kernel of Squeak. Yes, it is written as traits  
> already. But that hasn't exactly improved its clarity (quite to the  
> contrary I would argue). I'd be quite interested to see whether  
> there is an alternative that actually improves it.
> 2) Morphic. How's that for a challenge :) And if that's way too big  
> then maybe Pavel's minimal Morphic of Juan's Morphic 3.0. What I'd  
> be curious about is whether there is a real improvement to be  
> gained by factoring the numerous responsibilities into traits or not.
>
> Cheers,
>   - Andreas
>
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