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. >
