but I do not get why a class variable is accessed as a global.
It is not. You have to ask the class for the class variable:
SmalltalkImage classVariableNamed: #CompilerClass.
This returns the class variable ‘CompilerClass’ of class SmalltalkImage.
ahhhh ok
To me it looks plain wrong.
A class variable is like a shared variable between classes. In Clos
it was the same as an instance variable but with a class scope.
So could not we make that nicer.
I really find terrible and an attack against modularity to have them
managed that way.
Which way?
ah, I think my example was a bad one: I used SmalltalkIamge as it is
the class that comes to my mind that uses logs
of class variables. I do not ask the global namespace anything,
e.g. make a case TT with class var T and it is
TT classVariableNamed: #T
The variable is *not* global. It’s a class variable.
Ok we are safe :)
Marcus
