[squeak-dev] [ANN] Tirade

Nicolas Cellier nicolas.cellier.aka.nice at gmail.com
Mon Mar 16 22:43:00 UTC 2009


2009/3/16 Göran Krampe <goran at krampe.se>

> Hi!
>
> Nicolas Cellier wrote:
>
>> Hi Goran,
>> Two remarks:
>>
>> 1) closing the language:
>>
>> I know you want control and security.
>>
>
> Well, I want to maintain simplicity mainly. Currently it is so simple that
> it is "intuitively safe". Safety is not necessarily about exploits but
> rather about not inviting developers to do "smart stuff" that breaks tools
> etc.
>
>  But are you sure the language is opened enough for future deltas
>> extensions?
>>
>
> Can't really see what you mean.
>

The fact that you need a special interpretation of -> makes me suspicious.
Can you tell you won't ever need 1/2 for example?

I mean representing arbitrary deep oject trees (not speaking of general
graphs).
The example you are presenting seems flat. Could you expose how you would
build a deeper object?

Nicolas
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