On 30 Jan 2014, at 19:43, Torsten Bergmann <[email protected]> wrote:

> I checked: it was introduced in update no. 30711 with #issue 12163
> including the following statements:
> 
>> "Who uses poolDictionaries? I suspect extremely few of us."
>> ...
>> "It would be a bit cleaner. I know us old timers don't even see the  
>> poolDictionaries: line anymore, but >I dislike having to explain it to 
>> students."
> 
> 
> <humor>
> I would also vote for not displaying Traits anymore. It confuses me when I 
> see them. 
> Instance variables are also overvalued - we should remove them from the 
> default 
> template too. It's just too confusing to have them there. 
> 
> And categories now make no sense either - we now have real packages. Let's 
> remove them
> since nobody understands them.

he, humor or not, is our objective to replace them for real packages. Is just 
that we still do not have the time :)

> 
>    Object subclass: #Foo 
> 
> would be much easier to understand! Maybe we should remove superclass as well 
> - lets
> inherit from Object. Would also avoid deep hierarchies like Morphic ;)
> </humor>
> 
> But for real:
> If it is too complicated for students one could build a custom "teaching" 
> image.
> 
> From the info I see on the issue tracker it sounds to me like an "academic" 
> change 
> - still do not understand the real reason...
> 
> Bye
> T.
> 


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