2009/3/20 Stéphane Ducasse <[email protected]>: >>> >> Perhaps you need healing from your fear of conflict. Ask your mind to >> reveal to you where it was you learned this emotional pattern. (its >> not >> one I have ;-) ) > > keith this is much more simple than that. > I'm doing pharo just to avoid the endless discussions on "I need arrow > for assignment". > I have nearly 20 years of brain cells now if I do not die before so I > do not want to > spend my time on boring stuff when I can avoid it. > >> Another case in point, on my to do list for squeak is "a registration >> mechanism for menus/flaps etc". There is absolutely NO reason why >> such a >> mechanism shouldnt be specced out and developed as a loadable module >> for >> all squeak forks to adopt. > > Exact. Now the point is that we do not want to keep extra layer of > compatibility for the sake > of it. > +1 i think making squeak compatible with outer world (use ascii ':=' instead of unicode '<-' and enable to use '_' in selectors and variables) is better than trying to be 'compatible' with 20 years old dusty stuff.
>> Do we have to have 2 of absolutely everything? > > No but we have the right to choose and consider if we like it or not. > > Stef > > _______________________________________________ > Pharo-project mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project > -- Best regards, Igor Stasenko AKA sig. _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
