[squeak-dev] Overrides. Evil. Need to do something with it.

Bert Freudenberg bert at freudenbergs.de
Wed May 5 15:12:55 UTC 2010


On 05.05.2010, at 07:15, Igor Stasenko wrote:
> 
> 2010/5/5 Stéphane Rollandin <lecteur at zogotounga.net>:
>>> myMethod
>>>   <doNotOverride>
>> 
>>> What you think?

I think that's nonsense ;)

Overrides are evil, period.

I'd simply make loading an override a warning the user has to click through. That will teach package authors to not use them willy-nilly. For private use they could override the warning, but their users will probably be annoyed which is a Good Thing.

- Bert -





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