[squeak-dev] The Trunk: Graphics-mt.430.mcz

Thu Apr 23 22:50:03 UTC 2020

On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 5:37 AM Marcel Taeumel <marcel.taeumel at hpi.de>
wrote:

> > Note that "Smalltalk classNamed: ..." is not Environments-friendly
>
> Good to know! What to use instead?
>
> > Also, why not use a Symbol for the class name?
>
> Name feels like string. Symbol feels like "key".
>

Class and selector names should be symbolic.  They're keys to accessing
specific objects in the system...
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