On 18 May 2010 22:17, Eliot Miranda <eliot.mira...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 11:52 AM, Stéphane Ducasse > <stephane.duca...@inria.fr> wrote: >> >> cool we could turn them into nice query methods with semantics revealing >> names :) > > I would just use a SHaredPool with class variables appropriately named, e.g. > SharedPool subclass: #VMParameterNames > instanceVariableNames: '' > classVariableNames: '... ImageFormatVersion ...' > VMParameterNames class methods for initialization > initialize > ... > ImageFormatVersion := 41 > ... > then a client would use things like > Smalltalk image vmParameterAt: ImageFormatVersion > These are for very special uses and I don't really like the idea of making > access to them too easy. >
With such excuse, were ending up with a hacky shell scripts - an ultimately afwul way to access these attributes. It should be easier :) Its been always easy to make a mess: Array setFormat: 88888. Array new. bye-bye vm & image. Just give developers freedom, and then it is their own responsibility to not make mess out of it, not yours. -- Best regards, Igor Stasenko AKA sig. _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list Pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
