[squeak-dev] Re: Menu Registries

Hannes Hirzel hannes.hirzel at gmail.com
Wed Apr 28 16:07:16 UTC 2010


OK, Andreas was faster than me....

He says that the annotation scheme is perfectly consistent with

    1. "an object is send a message and responds with an object"

Could this please be elaborated a bit

--Hannes


On 4/28/10, Hannes Hirzel <hannes.hirzel at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4/28/10, Brent Pinkney <brent at zamail.co.za> wrote:
>> Hi all,+
>>
>> Could those in the know comment on how this <...> proposal is (or is not)
>> consistent with the fundamental Smalltalk principles
>> that:
>>
>> 1. "an object is send a message and responds with an object"
>> 2. there is no other "magic" in the system.
>>
>> Are we proposing a break fromv this ?
> YES, actually it has already happened. You like me one week ago were
> just not aware of it.
>
> If so, IMO we need to really get it
>> right before we commit.
>
> Yes, I agree. And this discussion is on-going. I'm glad you joined.
> In the writeup of Andreas
>
> Annotations for Service Discovery
> http://squeakingalong.wordpress.com/2010/04/27/annotations-for-service-discovery/
>
> he uses the word 'orthogonal'.
>
> I think it is helpful to think of method annotations of something
> 'orthogonal' to regular Smalltalk source code. Like CSS is
> 'orthogonal' to HTML.
>
> --Hannes
>
>
>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Brent
>>
>>
>



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