2010/2/9 Mariano Martinez Peck <[email protected]>

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> 2010/2/9 Eliot Miranda <[email protected]>
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>> 2010/2/9 Mariano Martinez Peck <[email protected]>
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>>> 2010/2/9 Luc Fabresse <[email protected]>
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>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>>  I wonder why BlockContext>>fixTemps is still in PharoCore.
>>>>  I guess that it should be removed, isn't it?
>>>>
>>>
>>> I would like to remove them.
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>>>
>>>>  It has only one sender.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Yes, in the core ;)   But the problem is that Seaside (I think only 2.8.4
>>> as 3.0 seems to fixed that) or KomHttpServer are still using it.
>>>
>>> Of course, we can just remove it and assume that those external packages
>>> should be fixed to run on Pharo. Squeak trunk also has closures...so..
>>>
>>>
>>>>  Morever, should the BlockContext class be removed too?
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>>>
>>> I would like, too. The only problem is the "compatibility". What maybe
>>> can be done is to remove the class but do something like
>>>
>>> Smalltalk at: #BlockContext put: #BlockClosure
>>>
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>> I think this is a really bad idea.  Imagine loading something that adds
>> functionality to BlockContext that simply makes no sense in BlockClosure or
>> breaks when compiled on BlockClosure.  Best live with the differences and
>> upgrade than introduce a horrible hack that pretends to do
>> backwards-compatibility but actually confuses the hell out of people.
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>>
> :(  So...what do you recommend us Eliot ?
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Leave BlockContext there for now.  Port functionality in BlockContext to
BlockClosure as required.  In a few months (or perhaps even now) mark
BlockClosure>>fixTemps and BlockContext protocol as deprecated so that uses
of fixTemps and BlockContext generate warnings e.g. in the Transcript.  In a
few years get rid of BlockContext.


Right now all we're talking about is having a null implementation of
fixTemps in BlockClosure.  Marking this deprecated seems to be adequate.  Or
am I not understanding your concerns?

Later on, in synchrony with Squeak and eToys I would like us to consider
whether it is worth-while collapsing ContextPart and MethodContext into a
single class called something like Context or SmalltalkExecutionContext or
ExecutionContext or ThisContext.


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> HTH
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>>> But I have no idea the impact of this....
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>> which is one really good reason /not/ to do it :)
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> ahahhaha that's true :)
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>> best
>> Eliot
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>>>>
>>>>  Depending on answers, I will write a bug report.
>>>>
>>>> Luc
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