On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 1:40 PM, Chris Muller <asqueaker at gmail.com> wrote:

> As I was programming in Squeak today, I typed a class name, including
> its two-letter prefix.  I wondered, could Environments be used to,
> dynamically, only in transient memory, remove a prefix from a package?
>  It would be nice to enjoy typing and reading the pure, unprefixed
> class names, but would want to keep the original prefixes when I save
> a new version of the package.
>

I'm not sure what you mean by "dynamically, only in transient memory" here.

You could certainly load a package that has prefixed-class-names and refer
to those classes without prefixes. It would be something like this:

| magmaEnv appEnv |
magmaEnv := Environment withName: 'Magma'.
magmaEnv exportSelf.

appEnv := Environment withName: 'My App'.
appEnv
  import: magmaEnv removingPrefix: 'Ma';
  importSelf.

Load your prefixed Magma classes into magmaEnv, and then write your app
code in appEnv referring to Magma classes without prefixes.

Colin
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