On May 2, 2011, at 12:48 AM, Markus Fritsche wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 2011/4/27 Mariano Martinez Peck <[email protected]>:
>> And as Marcus said, most of the times (sometimes we had some problems) we
>> have a deprecation process where we (usually) say which should be used
>> instead.
>
> From a a-little-bit-more-than-user perspective I am looking at
>
> SmalltalkImage>>#hasBindingThatBeginsWith: aString
> self deprecated: 'Use Smalltalk globals'.
> ^globals hasBindingThatBeginsWith: aString
>
Maybe we should not deprecate that quite yet but have it as a compatibility
method
(like at:put:)
> Well, with a bit of analysis, I would be able to figure out, that the
> author might have intended that I should search the SystemDictionary
> myself. I feel like an additional comment would have been helpful.
>
> Same with the other problem I had with ServiceRegistry - it is gone
> and it is not easy to find out what that was supposed to do. Next step
> is to compare squeak and the Pharo releases to find out what happened
> to it (the issue tracker does not easily yield results for this, but
> maybe I searched in the wrong way).
>
Services brought lots of complexity without being used too much.
We should build menues via pragmas (like the world menu), then extensions ot
menues
are just extension methods.
Marcus
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Marcus Denker -- http://www.marcusdenker.de
INRIA Lille -- Nord Europe. Team RMoD.
