On 01.05.2014, at 22:46, Chris Muller <ma.chris.m at gmail.com> wrote:

> While working on serialization of objects referencing the new
> "Smalltalk globals," (now an Environment), I came across an apparent
> issue with our 4.5 release image.  The Smalltalk Environment is at
> String-key 'Smalltalk' of its 'Instances' IdentityDictionary.
> 
> So we have no way to access (Environment named: 'Smalltalk') or
> (Environment named: #Smalltalk) without inadvertently creating a new
> Environment with that name.
> 
> Both the key and the Smalltalk Environment currently have String's for
> the name, but #environmentNamed: assumes the argument is a Symbol.
> Could we choose to consistently use either Strings or Symbols
> exclusively?
> 
> Either way, I would like to convert the 'Instances' global to a
> regular Dictionary instead of a IdentityDictionary.  If we end up
> deciding to use Symbol names, then logical #= (which defaults to #==
> in Object anyway) works whereas if we use Strings, it will work too.
> 

I'd vote for Symbols and _keeping_ the IdentityDictionary

best
	-tobias

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