asGlobalOrSomethingLikeThat :-)
-- Pavel
On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 11:59 AM, stephane ducasse
<stephane.duca...@free.fr>wrote:
>
> On May 2, 2013, at 10:36 AM, Frank Shearar <frank.shea...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > What's "global"? Even if you haven't implemented scoped environments,
> > rather use a name that doesn't imply that you'll never have scoped
> > environments.
>
> :)
> this is why I proposed asClass
>
> Now asGlobal can be interpreted as as globally accessible stuff.
>
>
> > #asClass sounds better, except for Guillermo's point about well-known
> > things that aren't classes.
> >
> > frank
> >
> > On 2 May 2013 09:31, Nicolas Cellier <nicolas.cellier.aka.n...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> Sounds a bit like VW #{ }
> >>
> >> This sounds good to me, but don't use globalBinding, I would expect
> this one
> >> to answer the binding (Asociation) rather than the value.
> >>
> >>
> >> 2013/5/2 Sven Van Caekenberghe <s...@stfx.eu>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On 02 May 2013, at 06:03, Igor Stasenko <siguc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Hi, all
> >>>>
> >>>> do not think that i am drunk or vent crazy, asking such silly
> >>>> question, which at best should be asked only by beginner :)
> >>>>
> >>>> I know the answer:
> >>>>
> >>>> Smalltalk at: #SomeName
> >>>>
> >>>> or
> >>>>
> >>>> Smalltalk globals at: #SomeName
> >>>>
> >>>> what stroke me, just now, that both answers is wrong!
> >>>>
> >>>> It should be:
> >>>>
> >>>> #SomeName asGlobal
> >>>>
> >>>> (or suggest more appropriate/precise method name for a symbol)
> >>>
> >>> ConfigurationOfXYZ globalValue project bleedingEdge load.
> >>>
> >>> ConfigurationOfXYZ globalValueIfPresent: [ :configuration |
> configuration
> >>> project bleedingEdge load ]
> >>>
> >>> An alternative could be globalBinding, but that is more technical.
> >>>
> >>> #asGlobal sounds like a conversion, on the other hand it is an accepted
> >>> idiom.
> >>>
> >>>> optionally, we could also have one, with handling absent case:
> >>>>
> >>>> #SomeName asGlobalIfAbsent: []
> >>>>
> >>>> same , but only if present:
> >>>>
> >>>> #SomeName asGlobalIfPresent: [:global | ]
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Currently, there is 941 references to 'Smalltalk' global in my pharo
> >>>> image.
> >>>> If we introduce this convenience method, it will shrink this number
> >>>> considerably,
> >>>> not saying that code will be more elegant and concise compare:
> >>>>
> >>>> (Smalltalk globals at: #Foo) doSomething
> >>>>
> >>>> and
> >>>>
> >>>> #Foo asGlobal doSomething
> >>>>
> >>>> P.S. What really strikes me is why we don't have such method from very
> >>>> beginning,
> >>>> and instead refer to 'Smalltalk' all over the places.
> >>>> Some things are so deeply indoctrinated in our minds, that we don't
> >>>> even think that it can be different.
> >>>>
> >>>> --
> >>>> Best regards,
> >>>> Igor Stasenko.
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >
>
>
>
