> > Dear Stephane. > Please forward to whomever else it may concern, a bit too rantish to send to > the general mailing list though :)
No it is not :) It is good to talk and have different opinion. This is what makes life more fun. > 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) I do not read it like proud :) > 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. ;) Sure do not worry. This asLink is a no brainer. I just think that linkedList should be an internal only used by the scheduler stuff :). > 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. That more important than the other issues > 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. Ok what can we do? I'm still stupid with weak stuff. Do you have code? :))) > The weather here at my friend's is really nice, and I hope you (and > Lukas?)'ll have better weather tomorrow :D No it is cold here. May be we will dare to go to brugges instead of getting stuck in front of our screens. :) > > Cheers, > Henry _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
