and we could keep all the Object method in a extension of the halt packages and
just some of them as forward to Halt.
I know that there was an attempt on the inbox to do that. But I was worried
that people will complain.
Now cleaning Object would be nice.
Stef
On Aug 28, 2011, at 8:10 PM, Lukas Renggli wrote:
> We have a class Halt and the class-side is empty. This seems to be the
> right place to hold all the code in the protocols #debugging and
> #debuggin-haltonce of Object. With a few renames we could get a really
> nice DSL:
>
> Halt now.
> Halt if: a = 2.
why not
Halt ifTrue: [a = 2].
?
two questions in my questions :)
[] and True:
> Halt once.
>
> Lukas
>
>
> On 28 August 2011 19:47, Marcus Denker <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> On Aug 28, 2011, at 7:24 PM, Sean P. DeNigris wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> 2. Using Object to halt causes bloat, and doesn't buy much (except that's
>>> how we've always done it).
>>
>>
>> Back in the days, we were virtually crucified for introducing the Beeper
>> class along the
>> same reasoning...
>>
>> The Beeper actually got very depressed due to having his very existance being
>> questioned.
>>
>> "I am just the result of a random refactoring" he was complaining "maybe I
>> should just
>> just delete myself and everyone will be happy".
>>
>> (you know, reflection *is* dangerous! There has been a lot of talk to make
>> reflection more
>> secure... for a reason!).
>>
>> To cheer him up, I gave him the lead role in a real, peer reviewed Paper:
>>
>> http://scg.unibe.ch/archive/papers/Denk08bMetaContextLNBIP.pdf
>>
>> The Beeper thus was the first Class to be really "Meta" in the history of
>> Objects. What a thrill. In an interview, the Beeper said: "You know, being
>> meta is hard
>> to decribe... Classes claim to be Meta all the time. But I doubt they ever
>> really are Meta. Being
>> Meta is special. The whole System looks different when meta!"
>>
>> ;-)
>>
>> --
>> Marcus Denker -- http://marcusdenker.de
>>
>>
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Lukas Renggli
> www.lukas-renggli.ch
>
