[squeak-dev] Urgent: how to define a global?

Tobias Pape Das.Linux at gmx.de
Fri Oct 31 22:13:24 UTC 2014


Hi,


Is anybody able to summon Colin on this whole issue?
It would be too bad if one of the 4.5 killer features
actually isn't killing but dead…

Best
	-Tobias

On 31.10.2014, at 23:04, Nicolas Cellier <nicolas.cellier.aka.nice at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yeah, I also already noticed about these nested nested nested policies...
> All this is far from obvious and the comments do not help ;)
> 
> Still on the same subject there is also this previous analysis in http://source.squeak.org/inbox/Kernel-nice.798.diff which explains how you can have access to the environment of your superclass... I don't know if it is still true, but for me, the fact that I couldn't correct this was not a sign of good health. 
> 
> 2014-10-31 2:10 GMT+01:00 Chris Muller <ma.chris.m at gmail.com>:
> On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 5:28 PM, Levente Uzonyi <leves at elte.hu> wrote:
> > On Thu, 30 Oct 2014, Chris Muller wrote:
> >
> >> Thanks guys, those both helped.  After defining X I found I could do a
> >> "Smalltalk importSelf" to get it copied into the 'bindings'
> >> Dictionary.
> >
> >
> > #importSelf is not what you want do, because that'll add the same policy to
> > your environment again.
> 
> Oh wow, and it even will allow duplicates..(!?)  I didn't even notice
> that because I was just interested in the second part of that method.
> 
> I was just operating as a Smalltalker; backtracing what was causing my
> #X lookup problem, and found it was because it wasn't in 'bindings'.
> So I browsed who ever adds anything into 'bindings'?  Only #importSelf
> and #showBinding:.  So to get the "side-effect" I wanted, I
> inadvertently also added a second BindingPolicy.  I manually removed
> the duplicate BindingPolicy, thanks for the heads-up.
> 
> I think Squeak's frameworks should be implemented in a way that caters
> to its own IDE, so Smalltalker's can figure things out by those normal
> tracing activities (senders, references, implementors).  #importSelf
> seems like a not-so-good method.




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