:) No political correctness please :) We have the rights to disagree :) Begin forwarded message:
> From: Henrik Johansen <[email protected]> > Date: May 9, 2010 2:09:35 AM GMT+02:00 > To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Subject: Pharo 1,1 -beta > > Dear Stephane. > Please forward to whomever else it may concern, a bit too rantish to send to > the general mailing list though :) > I'd wish we were able to meet face to face, as the 2 points I'd like to make > would be much easier to make without creating any sort of animosity if I had > an an instant opportunity to clearify any details. > > 1.RevertLinkedLists or not, I don't really care. (though, reading through my > late-night posts, some degree of personal pride might wrongfully be read into > it, for which I apologize) > It's a trade-off between handling adding objects and links equivalently, or > disallowing this. The current implementation is easier to use, while one > which allows adding links only is simpler implementation-wise. > It IS important to reach a deciscion for 1.1 though, as it can have > long-lasting consequences support-wise. > No matter what the outcome, please don't remove the objective improvements > over Squeak, like the swap method, which actually works. ;) > > Point 2: We CAN NOT release a beta version of 1.1 in which WeakDictionaries > depend on their users to register them for finalization in order to work > correctly/reliably. > The idea behind the new weakdicts is sound (avoid rehashes whenever removals > occur), the implementation however is unsound. (independent of the 10 or so > issues which have been resolved for it so far). I have detailed some of my > frustrations in comments to / new issues, afraid I can't reference those when > writing from my iPhone though. > > The weather here at my friend's is really nice, and I hope you (and > Lukas?)'ll have better weather tomorrow :D > > Cheers, > Henry _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
