Except that we lost initializer for TextConstants if there ever were any...
Pharo folks have already re-engineered it the thing, I think, so someone
having spare time should study the Pharo branch too :)


2013/11/21 tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org>

>
> On 20-11-2013, at 11:08 PM, Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > +1.  It's for better. SharedPool is a language implementation thingie
> like Begavior and CompiledMethod and hence Kernel is its home.  IMO it has
> nothing to do with there bring insances of SharedPool in Kernel and
> everything to do with SharedPool being part of the language implementation.
>
> Which reminds me that when Andreas & I did the original implementation (in
> 2003!) we fully expected to see all the shared pools converted to
> SharedPools fairly quickly. Sadly I see the TextConstants is *still* a
> plain old Dictionary.
>
> Sorting this out might be a nice little project for someone with a little
> of that mythical ‘spare time’ and a desire to dig into the bowels of the
> system a bit. There’s stuff that ought to be removed, like the existence of
> the
>  - DefaultEditMenu which should be in TextEditor or similar as a class
> method
>  - DefaultTextStyle which ought to be 'TextStyle default’
>  - and probably others
>
>
> tim
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