On 3 February 2010 18:12, Marcus Denker <marcus.den...@inria.fr> wrote: > > On Feb 3, 2010, at 5:03 PM, Schwab,Wilhelm K wrote: > >> Marcus, >> >> Rats :) You've stolen my thunder. Actually, I won't go as far as to say >> "never," but I agree. There are places in Squeak that inherit from >> collections or put methods in Object, and it sure looks as though the >> programmer didn't know any better. > > And partly, this was because it was done a very long time ago... back than, > it was not known how to program with this newly invented object things. Even > by the people who invented it! It's > often that others, who than use it, learn how to use it better than the > creators. > > The same will happen with everything we will invent (if we invent anything, > that is :-) ). > +100
the good thing is, that we're free to change this. While java people got stuck with sealed stuff forever :) > > Marcus > > -- > Marcus Denker -- http://www.marcusdenker.de > INRIA Lille -- Nord Europe. Team RMoD. > > > _______________________________________________ > Pharo-project mailing list > Pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr > http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project > -- Best regards, Igor Stasenko AKA sig. _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list Pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
