>>>>> "Hernán" == Hernán Morales Durand <[email protected]> writes:
Hernán> I think the person term in "First person" refers more to a human
Hernán> than any artificial intelligence form, which anyway is methaphysically
Hernán> impossible.
And yet, through anthropromorphism, this is exactly how the early
Smalltalkers talked and wrote their comments.
See the class comment for "Delay", for example:
I am the main way that a process may pause for some amount of time. The
simplest usage is like this:
(Delay forSeconds: 5) wait.
Or "Behavior":
My instances describe the behavior of other objects. I provide the minimum
state necessary for compiling methods, and creating and running
instances. Most objects are created as instances of the more fully supported
subclass, Class, but I am a good starting point for providing
instance-specific behavior (as in Metaclass).
I can imagine these comments date back to the original ST80 image.
The question on the table is, should this practice continue.
I vote yes. I found this style of comments a refreshing change, and also
forced people into thinking about what a class *does*, not just what it
*holds*.
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