[squeak-dev] Can't browse Traits [was Ancient Mantis Report 1554, compiler and global vs class variables]

Frank Shearar frank.shearar at gmail.com
Mon Jul 22 06:09:07 UTC 2013


On 21 July 2013 23:22, tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:
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> On 21-07-2013, at 3:12 PM, Nicolas Cellier <nicolas.cellier.aka.nice at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> So, it appears that all these are Traits, and that we currently can't browse Traits.
>> See Trait someInstance browse...
>> (In my image I have a few obsolete Traits by the way)
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> Are Traits used at all? Are they used meaningfully? I remember they seemed like a pretty cool idea but has any actual, useful usefulness of a useful nature been made of them? Are there tools to do anything sensible with them? Is there current, readable documentation that would help people make good use of them?
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> If not, toss'em.

I have started using them. Not meaningfully, or heavily. I would like
to keep them because they (a) look useful for pulling out commonality
that doesn't really have enough meat to form a class, (b) really just
look like they need a bit more tooling support, and (c) they're the
sort of low level nuts-and-bolts that are really difficult to get in
in the first place.

So for once I'm in favour of _not_ ripping them out.

frank

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