> On 03 Apr 2015, at 14:11, Benoit St-Jean via Pharo-dev
> <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Date: 3 Apr 2015 14:08:03 CEST
> From: Benoit St-Jean <[email protected]>
> Reply-To: Benoit St-Jean <[email protected]>
> To: Pharo Development List <[email protected]>
> Subject: Pharo 4 Beta, first impressions
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>
> 3 quick things :
>
> 1) How can I get the Windows theme (W2K) that was available in Pharo 3 (it's
> no longer there in Pharo 4.0 Beta). Having the close, maximize & minimize
> buttons to the left of every window is VERY annoying for Windows users!
>
Windows 2k is 16 years old. We can not maintain a museum of old windows looks…
it just makes no sense (at all. At all… I don’t even think how someone can
think that we should!).
Keep in mind that nobody uses it (but you, I guess), so it will for sure be
broken in subtle ways…
We need to use it where it makes sense. A windows 2000 look is not one of these
things.
> 2) Am I the only one annoyed by the fact that the Collection class still
> holds on to 2 class variables (one of them being an instance of Random, the
> other a mutex) for the sole purpose of accommodating the #atRandom &
> #atRandom: methods ? Even worse, the Integer class' implementation of
> #atRandom references the Collection class to use that random instance! In
> other words, Integer>>#atRandom --> Collection>>#randomForPicking --> Random
> ! I've always been a fan of the "mind your own business" approach. Wouldn't
> it make a lot more sense to have the Random class provide a default instance
> (a singleton) whenever other classes need such an object instead of crippling
> the code with class variables and singleton instance all over the place?
>
The system is very large. I think it is fundamentally wrong to assume that
something like this (Design level things) will be magically fixed if there was
no discussion, no issue tracker entry, no nothing.
Why do you think that this will “fix itself magically”? I would really like to
know your thought process behind this… is there something that makes you think
that a release process could catch
this? How?
Marcus
