Looks like Thierry has a nifty solution for Traits in FileTree that
doesn't involve methods ... Bob's already your uncle:)
Dale
On 5/21/17 10:36 AM, Dale Henrichs wrote:
I'm not familiar with Traits and how they have been integrated into
Monticello, but reading comments from the snapshot is pretty wild ---
but I I suppose it works:)
For FileTree Traits should be added as first class objects ... I
assume that Traits are just regular classes and that the trickery
comes with associating a method in a class with a method from a Trait.
In Filetree (Cypress 1.0), the first line of an st file is interpreted
as the method protocol and monkeying with the method protocol would be
possible but not transparently portable. The "most recent" Cypress
format (Cypress 1.5) switched from a single line to a 4 line
structured comment[1].
Martin McClure is currently working on Cypress2.0 and I believe that
he is proposing that methods also have an attribute dictionary (like
classes [2]), so for Cypress 2.0 Traits methods could be first class
objects ...
Cypress 2.0 is still a work in process. Cypress 1.0 is widely used,
while Cypress 1.5 is not...
Sooo, I would suggest that the Cypress 1.5 format could be modified to
accommodate Traits methods ... FileTree already supports 3 or 4
different disk formats, so FileTree could be updated to support
Cypress 1.5 format and then Bob's your uncle ...
Dale
[1]https://github.com/CampSmalltalk/Cypress/wiki#method-file-format
[2] https://github.com/CampSmalltalk/Cypress/wiki#class-properties
On 5/20/17 8:12 PM, Ben Coman wrote:
Is this of concern for Pharo...? "Pull requests on GitHub where the
Trait comments get removed (because they were not loaded with the
package in the first place)."
http://forum.world.st/Re-The-Inbox-System-jr-919-mcz-td4941798.html#none
http://forum.world.st/The-Inbox-System-jr-919-mcz-td4933985.html
cheers -ben
