Re: [Pharo-project] {Spam?} Re: "Real" packages.

2010-02-19 Thread James Foster
On Feb 19, 2010, at 1:06 AM, Geert Claes wrote: > Is that GemStone Programming Guide pdf you linked to still the latest, it > says April 2007? While it is not the "latest", the material in chapter 3 is essential the same. ___ Pharo-project mailing list

Re: [Pharo-project] {Spam?} Re: "Real" packages.

2010-02-19 Thread Geert Claes
Dale Henrichs wrote: > > Gemstone uses an order list of dictionaries for global lookup. Each user > can change the order of the list or insert their own dictionaries into the > list ... makes for quite a bit of flexibility you can load code into a > particular dictionary...and the global res

Re: [Pharo-project] {Spam?} Re: "Real" packages.

2010-02-18 Thread Miguel Enrique Cobá Martinez
| [mailto:pharo-project-boun...@lists.gforge.inria.fr] On Behalf Of > | Esteban Lorenzano > | Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 3:40 PM > | To: pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr > | Subject: Re: [Pharo-project] {Spam?} Re: "Real" packages. > | > | Well... I disagree with yo

Re: [Pharo-project] {Spam?} Re: "Real" packages.

2010-02-18 Thread Dale Henrichs
ts.gforge.inria.fr | Subject: Re: [Pharo-project] {Spam?} Re: "Real" packages. | | Well... I disagree with you, Mariano. If you allow packages, suddenly | you will have things like: | | com.pirulo.Date, | ar.com.pirulin.Date | | and a lot of classes who, in fact, should be just Date | | (

Re: [Pharo-project] {Spam?} Re: "Real" packages.

2010-02-17 Thread Schwab,Wilhelm K
slippery slope into Java packages. Bill -Original Message- From: pharo-project-boun...@lists.gforge.inria.fr [mailto:pharo-project-boun...@lists.gforge.inria.fr] On Behalf Of Esteban Lorenzano Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 3:40 PM To: pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr Subject: Re: [

Re: [Pharo-project] {Spam?} Re: "Real" packages.

2010-02-17 Thread Esteban Lorenzano
Well... I disagree with you, Mariano. If you allow packages, suddenly you will have things like: com.pirulo.Date, ar.com.pirulin.Date and a lot of classes who, in fact, should be just Date (and that's just an example) Cheers, Esteban On 2009-02-11 12:13:07 -0300, Mariano Martinez Peck said:

Re: [Pharo-project] {Spam?} Re: "Real" packages.

2009-02-11 Thread Mariano Martinez Peck
I hate not having a real namespace. I hate to call my class DBXConnection instead of Connection. I think namespaces are very useful. Something like Java packages or similar would be grate for me. Cheers, Mariano On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 7:09 PM, Travis Kay wrote: > Bill Schwab wrote: > > Stef,

Re: [Pharo-project] {Spam?} Re: "Real" packages.

2009-02-10 Thread Travis Kay
Bill Schwab wrote: > Stef, > > Re Dolphin, class categories have long been of marginal use; I'll speak for > myself on that but suspect others would agree. I am a Dolphin Pro, Squeak and Pharo users, I agree. Travis > Packages are of course extremely useful. Method categories are also quite

[Pharo-project] {Spam?} Re: "Real" packages.

2009-02-10 Thread Bill Schwab
Stef, Re Dolphin, class categories have long been of marginal use; I'll speak for myself on that but suspect others would agree. Packages are of course extremely useful. Method categories are also quite useful, and Dolphin allows multiple categories to be assigned to a given method. Dolphin