Re: [Pharo-dev] Cleaning up... baseClass, instanceSide, theNonMetaclass

2018-02-13 Thread Stephane Ducasse
xkcd so to the point. So we will kill two and keep one. On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 12:12 PM, Ben Coman wrote: > I found it quite insightful when I read someone describe that the way > Smalltalk uses Classes is essentially the Factory Pattern. > That makes me wonder whether

Re: [Pharo-dev] Cleaning up... baseClass, instanceSide, theNonMetaclass

2018-02-12 Thread Ben Coman
I found it quite insightful when I read someone describe that the way Smalltalk uses Classes is essentially the Factory Pattern. That makes me wonder whether classClass and classSide of a class might confuse newcomers and maybe factorySide of a class would make more sense. The again...

Re: [Pharo-dev] Cleaning up... baseClass, instanceSide, theNonMetaclass

2018-02-12 Thread Guillermo Polito
In my code I use to use instanceSide and classSide. don't know why. Maybe they are clearer to me? On Sun, Feb 11, 2018 at 8:59 PM, Denis Kudriashov wrote: > 2018-02-11 18:14 GMT+01:00 Stephane Ducasse : > >> Hi >> >> We already got this discussion

Re: [Pharo-dev] Cleaning up... baseClass, instanceSide, theNonMetaclass

2018-02-11 Thread Denis Kudriashov
2018-02-11 18:14 GMT+01:00 Stephane Ducasse : > Hi > > We already got this discussion and I plan to address it. > Now I discovered that in addition to instanceSide and theNonMetaclass we > have > > - classClass and baseClass > - theMetaclass and theNonMetaclass > -