On Dec 2, 2009, at 10:43 PM, Lukas Renggli wrote:

> The rejection of the Kernel, Collections, System is not about the
> size, it is because of the classes they contain. There are many
> classes in the system that you can't wrap without possibly harming the
> system. Especially tricky are classes that are used by the system at
> all times (so the result would be wrong anyway) and the coverage tools
> itself (what could result in infinite recursion), 

hehehe... and people always say research does not solve practical problems:

Marcus Denker, Mathieu Suen, and Stéphane Ducasse. The Meta in Meta-object 
Architectures.
In Proceedings of TOOLS EUROPE 2008, LNBIP 11 p. 218—237, Springer-Verlag, 2008
http://scg.unibe.ch/scgbib?query=Denk08b&display=abstract

... sometimes I have the feeling we learned quite a lot the last years. 
fundamental things, even.
I think it will be interesting how the reflective kernel of Pharo will look 
like in 5 years.

        Marcus

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Marcus Denker  -- http://www.marcusdenker.de


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