On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 9:46 AM, Tobias Pape <Das.Linux at gmx.de> wrote:

>
> On 22.01.2015, at 18:32, Nicolas Cellier <
> nicolas.cellier.aka.nice at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > 2015-01-22 9:30 GMT+01:00 Frank Shearar <frank.shearar at gmail.com>:
> > On 22 January 2015 at 08:25, Tobias Pape <Das.Linux at gmx.de> wrote:
> > >
> > > On 22.01.2015, at 09:22, Frank Shearar <frank.shearar at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > >
> > >> On 21 January 2015 at 23:48,  <commits at source.squeak.org> wrote:
> > >>> Tobias Pape uploaded a new version of Environments to project The
> Trunk:
> > >>> http://source.squeak.org/trunk/Environments-topa.56.mcz
> > >>>
> > >>> ==================== Summary ====================
> > >>>
> > >>> Name: Environments-topa.56
> > >>> Author: topa
> > >>> Time: 22 January 2015, 12:48:30.677 am
> > >>> UUID: e5cad590-2869-4f02-84ac-482952779d06
> > >>> Ancestors: Environments-topa.55
> > >>>
> > >>> Provide more Dictionary protocol for exisiting users of Smalltalk
> globals.
> > >>
> > >> If it addresses, in an expedient way, existing problems, then fine.
> > >> But the Environments work was explicitly trying to move _away_ from
> > >> the Dictionary protocols. Hence why the existing Dictionary-like
> > >> methods are in the "emulating" category.
> > >
> > > Refactoring-Core is using this API.
> >
> > Obviously making the rest of the world move to the Environments API is
> > the _right_ thing to do, if it's manipulating environmental stuff, but
> > in the meantime, +1 to this addition :)
> >
> > frank
> >
> >
> > We can use the #deprecated: in the meantime so as to not forget
> > - that we should change senders
> > - that we should not use this API in new code
>
> I'm unsure.
> I _really_ like the idea of treating a namespace as a dictionary.
>

To be pedantic, +0.5.  I like being able to use the read-only part of the
Dictionary protocol on Environments.  It is the destructive update-in-place
part at:put: et al that shouldn't be supported.  Modification is something
that Environment needs to control carefgully to maintain system integrity.

But this is just gut feeling.
>
> Best
>         -Tobias
>

-- 
best,
Eliot
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