[Vm-dev] Re: [squeak-dev] My permanent source of confusion and therefore bugs

[Igor Stasenko]

On 14 May 2010 09:56, stephane ducasse <stephane.ducasse at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>>
>>> Why not create some more comprehensible aliases for your own use and get e.g. Slang to translate them to the form you find hard to distinguish?
>>>
>> Yeah... i could do that. But you know.. i'm not a big fan of aliased methods.
>>
>> NBInterpreterProxy methodDict size 149
>>
>> if i start adding aliases, it will go an go more and more. And,
>> usually, the more things you adding , the harder to
>> figure out, what you need.
>
> But igor this is a really good idea to migrate slowly API.
> You have the old and you build slowly the new, but on the side of the old and you slowly replace the old senders
> and remove the old API. Now if you do not design the new then the old will stay there forever.
> So please start proposing a new API.
>

This makes sense. Thanks for opening my eyes :)

> Stef



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