[squeak-dev] Pluggable MethodFinder

Chris Muller asqueaker at gmail.com
Thu Jul 25 15:46:01 UTC 2013


Couldn't those methods referencing Color and Point simply be moved to Graphics?

On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 7:14 AM, Frank Shearar <frank.shearar at gmail.com> wrote:
> Kernel currently depends on Graphics because the MethodFinder
> references Color and Point.
>
> I would like to remove this dependency, but to do while while
> preserving MethodFinder's near-magical utility, it looks like we'd
> need some kind of pluggable extension thing.
>
> In other words, MethodFinder would provide some kind of API such that
> Graphics could say "you know MethodFinder, you ought to try these
> classes - Color and Point - and these methods - #@ and so on - when
> you run."
>
> MethodFinder >> #testRandom, #testTuple and #verify could then walk
> these per-package collections of interesting things when it does its
> thing.
>
> I would _really really_ appreciate someone (other than me) applying
> some grey matter to this problem.
>
> frank
>


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