Hi guys
We got a meeting at ESUG with all the compiler guys and james from gemstone.
Our goal is to have a full tool suite that can be parametrized by
environments (so that
we can compile code in other space, or compile other code inside pharo).
I personnally started this effort one decade ago. Now the introduction
of #asClass and friend is simply destroying all our efforts. There was a
discussion
in the past but we are not listened.
We will
- packaged these extensions in a separate package
- add rules to ban the use of such method in Pharo
- fix all the use (again) to use the correct way to do it.
I can understand that for scripting this is easier but it cannot be at
that cost and impact.
I hope that we will understand but we have to do something else than
fixing code that breaks our effort.
Stef, Marcus, Guille and Luc