On 3/14/02 3:08 AM, "Christian Trutz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> [SNIP]
>>> to velocity would be required in order to make this actually work. A
>>> core that stated immutable types in the context which would allow for
>>> real complication with the option to allow mutable types if you wished.
>>> Hashtables are convenient and I know people use them but I think that
>>> allow mutable types in the context actually promotes bad design.
>> 
>> How's that?  When you see
>> 
>>   $foo.bar
>> 
>> There is no contract about what class foo is, and how bar is accessed....
> 
> [SNAP]
> 
> I have an idea: how about generating code also for SMALLTALK?

That would be interesting. :)


>I see 
> Velocity's power in it's "mutable types".

Yep.  I call it 'Introspective Polymorphism'.


>I know, Jakarta is primary a Java
> project, it's only an idea ...
> 

There is nothing that says you couldn't do a Smalltalk Velocity elsewhere.
The more implementations of Velocity, the better.

I *promise* we would link to it :)
 
> Christian
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