[squeak-dev] Is prompting to make a pool dictionary useful?

Frank Shearar frank.shearar at gmail.com
Tue Jan 7 19:03:36 UTC 2014


On 7 January 2014 18:59, tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:
>
> On 07-01-2014, at 7:28 AM, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de> wrote:
>>> As a counterpoint, this method will only affect the creation of _new_
>>> pools: so should these _new_ pools be Dictionary instances, or
>>> SharedPools?
>>
>> Good point. Seems reasonable to encourage the use of SharedPools.
>
> Definitely. And if someone with some time feels like tackling the insane monster known as ‘TextConstants’ we’d all breathe more easily.

Hey cool, it doesn't even have keys of a homogenous type! (I have a
'Bitmap DejaVu Sans' key in mine.)

I'm going to add this to the list of things to do in 4.6!

frank


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