Re: [Pharo-project] On not unnecessarily closing down the language

Dec. 29, 2008

      Hi Ramon,

Ramon Leon wrote:
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Yes I contacted Janko if he can fix that
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I can fix of course but I'm a bit surprised that in Squeak the class 
variables are supposed to be lower case. I have in mind back 
from 1996 
that they must be uppercase.
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Janko, I'm pretty sure Lukas was talking about a class instance variable,
not a class variable.  Class instance variables should be lowercase while
class vars are uppercase.  Swazoo apparently contains a class-instance
variable that is uppercased, which regardless of the outcome of this
discussion, should probably be fixed.
Here is the exact definition of a Swazoo class in question:

Object subclass: #SwazooServer
     instanceVariableNames: 'sites servers watchdog'
     classVariableNames: 'Singleton'
     poolDictionaries: ''
     category: 'Swazoo-Core'

And here the same definition of Swazoo SiteRegistry in VW 3.0 back from 
2000:

Object subclass: #SiteRegistry
     instanceVariableNames: 'sites servers '
     classVariableNames: 'Singleton '
     poolDictionaries: ''
     category: 'Swazoo'

So, this is obviously a class variable definition and not an instance 
one. Where is the problem then? I don't find any class instance 
variables in other classes and in any way the Singleton should be only 
class variable in use in Swazoo.

Best regards
Janko

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