On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 12:43 PM gettimothy via Squeak-dev <
squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org> wrote:

> Hi Foks,
>
> TL;DR; is it a "BAD THING TO DO" to add a class side method to ProtoObject?
>

Yes.


> Each Class will respond to the "help" class side method , so I figured
> start at the top with ProtoObject
>

The top is Object. ProtoObject is an implementation detail. We like to
ignore it even exists.


> I am going to try a Visitor/Decorator pattern for every class in the system
>

If this is for all *classes*, then the natural place to put it would be the
*instance* side of *Class*, since all classes are (sub)instances of Class.

- Vanessa -
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