On 2013-09-16, at 05:25, Igor Stasenko <siguc...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 13 September 2013 02:06, Camillo Bruni <camillobr...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Session is a class, not an instance that is a BIG difference. >> The same goes for VirtualMachine, OSPlatform, OSEnvironment etc. >> These are all classes, but you only work with their instances: >> >> OSPlatform current == Smalltalk os >> VirtualMachine current == Smalltalk vm >> OSEnvironment current == Smalltalk os environment >> >> and thus, it is quite natural to deduce >> >> Session current == Smalltalk session >> >> it's all symmetric, not strange objects that have names like classes >> but are actually instances. >> >> > That's not the kind of symmetry i would like to see :) > It doesn't hurts to have 2 ways to do the same thing (Perl even armed this > 'as a good thing' btw), > but to my taste there should be only one way, which frees me (as a user) > from unnecessary doubts and need to search for vague explanations from > system's authors.
That's the moment where you add a custom lint rule to verify that the user actually does the right thing. Damien Cassou recently added something like that to no longer access the ui manager directly via it's class.
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