On Feb 20, 2009, at 8:44 AM, Keith Hodges wrote: > Stéphane Ducasse wrote: >> But we do not want hacks. :) and hidden dependencies. >> Frankly I do not understand why this is not possible to use a method >> (since a method is a script with a name). >> > Because methods have to compile, or they are not accepted. > > In bob's case these are scripts that will run in a different image, so > do not necessarily compile in Bob's image. > > In mantis's case these are the bug reports downloaded for searching > and > reference purposes. > > I dont regard this as a hack since Smalltalk is designed to have this > flexibility of supporting differnnt languages, and syntaxes. If you > dont > like it then why not remove #compilerClass altogether. > > If you call this a hack then what is WAFileDirectory? You would think > that using methods to store data in the image has never been done > before.
but these images do not require to extend the compiler. What I do not understand is how the browse also shows you this extra code at the end of methods. My gut feeling is that there is certainly a clean way to do that. > > > Keith > > _______________________________________________ > Pharo-project mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project > _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
