[squeak-dev] Can't browse Traits [was Ancient Mantis Report 1554,
compiler and global vs class variables]
Edgar J. De Cleene
edgardec2005 at gmail.com
Mon Jul 22 09:24:54 UTC 2013
On 7/21/13 7:57 PM, "Nicolas Cellier" <nicolas.cellier.aka.nice at gmail.com>
wrote:
> AFAIK, Trait were only used to implement Trait (See category
> 311Deprecated-Traits).
> I don't think that simplified Trait introduced by Andreas still uses Trait.
>
> If we have Trait in Image, we should have a minimum tool support.
> But even if we don't use Trait, but have one or more instance of Trait in the
> image then it should not spoil browsing implementors of #bindingOf:
>
> Then removing Trait is yet another option, but it won't be that easy to
> re-introduce them if we ever need them or just want to experiment things.
> The idea was more to provide a minimal support for Trait and don't use them
> directly in core system.
>
>
> 2013/7/22 tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org>
>>
>> On 21-07-2013, at 3:12 PM, Nicolas Cellier
>> <nicolas.cellier.aka.nice at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> > 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)
>>
>> 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?
>>
>> If not, toss'em.
Some people think they was useful....
Could be removed and guess nobody here miss they.
Edgar
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