> On 19 Nov 2019, at 11:57, Sven Van Caekenberghe <s...@stfx.eu> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> AbstractEnvironmentTestCase exists only in Pharo 8, tracking this with STON
> (from changes in Pharo 8) gives me tests that can no longer be loaded in
> Pharo 7 (or versions before that).
>
> At least AbstractEnvironmentTestCase should be back ported to Pharo 7.
>
> Apart from that, I don't think this is a good change (since it breaks
> backwards compatibility
> too much).
I do not agree.
> Why do all Smalltalk>>#at: references have to be removed ? The way I see it,
> Smalltalk>>#at: could be rewritten to dynamically use a different
> environment, if that is set up earlier, using a DynamicVariable. Similarly,
> #asClass could be implemented to follow the same path.
Because if one day we want to have modules and environment better to have a
system that does not point to
global variables.
We should not refer to global variables.
Stef
>
> Or am I wrong ?
>
> Sven
>
>
>
