On 4/28/10, Brent Pinkney <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all,+ > > Could those in the know comment on how this <...> proposal is (or is not) > consistent with the fundamental Smalltalk principles > that: > > 1. "an object is send a message and responds with an object" > 2. there is no other "magic" in the system. > > Are we proposing a break fromv this ? YES, actually it has already happened. You like me one week ago were just not aware of it.
If so, IMO we need to really get it > right before we commit. Yes, I agree. And this discussion is on-going. I'm glad you joined. In the writeup of Andreas Annotations for Service Discovery http://squeakingalong.wordpress.com/2010/04/27/annotations-for-service-discovery/ he uses the word 'orthogonal'. I think it is helpful to think of method annotations of something 'orthogonal' to regular Smalltalk source code. Like CSS is 'orthogonal' to HTML. --Hannes > Thanks > > Brent > > _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
