[Squeakfoundation]Open letter to the harvesters

[Stephane Ducasse]

Hi guys

I'm diving in systemDictionary and other dark places of Squeak and I 
would really appreciate that in the future you ***REJECT*** any 
goodies, cool add-ons that violates basic OO principles.
Such as:

- Favor subtyping versus subclassing: a Tool should not inherit from 
List.
	A tool is not a List it is composed from a list
- Avoid: Direct access to Smalltalk
- Avoid: Direct access to super super super instance
- Avoid: use of super with a different selectors
- Avoid: Adding methods to the wrong places
- Avoid: Violate basic layering principles
- Add PopUp in DOMAIN classes (SmartStreamRef should not refer to PopUp,
this is the client of SmartStreamRef to do the work,)
- Classes that mixes UI and Domain
- trash classes

Sorry I had to say that, the OO programmers inside me what 
exploding.....

Stef

Sometimes I feel sad but this is fun to clean.....




Prof. Dr. Stéphane DUCASSE
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