Hi, 

> On 28 Nov 2016, at 21:32, stepharo <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi
> 
> - Could we rename FastTable into Table?

not for Pharo 6 but Pharo 7 yes… in fact, I think it should be called 
TableMorph.
(Also we need to refactor a lot, to eliminate the FT prefix, etc.)

> 
> - Then I miss an important design point. Why datasource returns Morph?
> I do not get get why a data source should return UI element. To me it 
> violates layers.

no, because that’s its purpose: to provide the table with the cell elements 
(which are by definition Morphs… any kind of morphs). 
a TableDataSource is not a spec, is the provider of cells.

I got inspired for Cocoa NSTableView design (and NSTableViewDataSource), and 
that’s what it does. 
See for example here: 
https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/TableView/PopulatingView-TablesProgrammatically/PopulatingView-TablesProgrammatically.html
 
<https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/TableView/PopulatingView-TablesProgrammatically/PopulatingView-TablesProgrammatically.html>
This function: 
- (NSView *)tableView:(NSTableView *)tableView
   viewForTableColumn:(NSTableColumn *)tableColumn
                  row:(NSInteger)row

is the equivalent of our FTDataSource>>cellColumn:row:

Esteban

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