OK so I did not get the ones that are missing for Glorp?

Stef

On Aug 11, 2009, at 9:18 AM, Adrian Lienhard wrote:

> This was already discussed some time ago in the thread
> "BlockContextTest". Gabriel posted a list of methods and we discussed
> which ones should be copied to BlockClosure.
>
> Adrian
>
> On Aug 11, 2009, at 09:06 , St�phane Ducasse wrote:
>
>> What would be nice is to get a list of the methods that are missing
>> in
>> BlockClosure.
>> After the changes will not be only needed for pharo but also for
>> Squeak since Squeak has blockclosure now
>>
>> Stef
>>
>>>
>>> http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=1058
>>>>>
>>>>> Can this two classes be merged (the share 80% or more than methods
>>>>> and
>>>>> several are identical, maybe were copied) and then (assuming that
>>>>> the
>>>>> BlockClosure will be the enduring):
>>>>>
>>>>> Smalltalk at: #BlockContext put: BlockClosure
>>>>>
>>>>> This way several packages that extend BlockContext will work in
>>>>> the
>>>>> new
>>>>> closure vm, for example Magma.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I don't think this is a good idea. BlockClosures are *not*
>>>> contexts.
>>>> So methods
>>>> that are about the context part of BlockContext will fail.
>>>>
>>>> I think we should just keep BlockContext for backward-compatibility
>>>> in
>>>> 1.0. This
>>>> way, people can load code and than check if the methods needs to go
>>>> to
>>>> MethodContext
>>>> or BlockClosures.
>>>>
>>>> � � �Marcus
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> Ok, I assumed that like both classes share a lot of methods, they
>>> were
>>> mostly interchangeable.
>>> So by the responses, I think that this implies that changes will be
>>> neccesary to port packages that
>>> extend BlockContext to work in Pharo, while, at the same time, they
>>> must conserve the extensions to
>>> BlockContext.
>>>
>>> I imagine that given the closure integration in Squeak, this will
>>> force all the packages to use BlockClosure (or
>>> equivalent class) to update their packages.
>>>
>>> Miguel Cob�
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Marcus Denker - http://marcusdenker.de
>>>> PLEIAD Lab - Computer Science Department (DCC) - University of
>>>> Chile
>>>>
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