https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/10583/Use-System-instead-of-Smalltalk-to-access-globals
On 2013-08-26, at 15:54, "p...@highoctane.be" <p...@highoctane.be> wrote: > ... and Smalltalk should be renamed into Pharo anyway. > > :-p > > Phil > > > > On Monday, August 26, 2013, Igor Stasenko <siguc...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> >> On 26 August 2013 14:34, Camille Teruel <camille.ter...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> On 26 août 2013, at 13:31, Igor Stasenko wrote: >>> >>> the intent was to replace >>> Smalltalk at: >>> Smalltalk globals at: >>> >>> idioms with shorter one, and get rid of referencing Smalltalk global. >>> >>> The are not for solving future problems with introduction of > environments. >>> >>> We want to get rid of Smalltalk globals because it currently resolve to > an instance of SmalltalkImage, a class that does way too much things, > including holding the currently unique environment, while a global could > directly refer to it. >>> Also the references to Smalltalk globals that where really wrong are > already gone and were in compiler. >>> >>> And even if you introduce them, i still think you need a way to refer to > globals (they are likely to stay) >>> >>> Globals are global to their environment. We could also call them > environment variable. >> >> Nope. In current system it is something else. It is a global variable not > local to any environment. >> And you will certainly have problems with old (and not so) code, if you > swap the meaning (and underlying semantic) >> of globals to anything else you may want. >> This is what i trying to point out. In this case, #asClass is good, > because it makes sure that old semantics will be preserved, >> no matter what changes we may do. >> It also will allow us to revisit all senders of #asClass and easily > change them to something else when we will be ready for that.. >> and btw it will be much easier comparing to visiting all uses of > Smalltalk or all uses of ThisEnvironment. >> >> >> > > -- > --- > Philippe Back > Dramatic Performance Improvements > Mob: +32(0) 478 650 140 | Fax: +32 (0) 70 408 027 > Mail:p...@highoctane.be | Web: http://philippeback.eu > Blog: http://philippeback.be | Twitter: @philippeback > Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/user/philippeback/videos > > High Octane SPRL > rue cour Boisacq 101 | 1301 Bierges | Belgium > > Pharo Consortium Member - http://consortium.pharo.org/ > Featured on the Software Process and Measurement Cast - > http://spamcast.libsyn.com > Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect and Ability Engineering EADocX Value > Added Reseller
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