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From: Benoit St-Jean <bstjean@yahoo.com>
To: Pharo Development List <pharo-dev@lists.pharo.org>
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Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2015 12:08:03 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: Pharo 4 Beta, first impressions

3 quick things :

1) How can I get the Windows theme (W2K) that was available in Pharo 3 (it's no longer there in Pharo 4.0 Beta).  Having the close, maximize & minimize buttons to the left of every window is VERY annoying for Windows users!

2) Am I the only one annoyed by the fact that the Collection class still holds on to 2 class variables (one of them being an instance of Random, the other a mutex) for the sole purpose of accommodating the #atRandom & #atRandom: methods ?  Even worse, the Integer class' implementation of #atRandom references the Collection class to use that random instance!  In other words, Integer>>#atRandom --> Collection>>#randomForPicking --> Random !  I've always been a fan of the "mind your own business" approach.  Wouldn't it make a lot more sense to have the Random class provide a default instance (a singleton) whenever other classes need such an object instead of crippling the code with class variables and singleton instance all over the place?

3) I'm having a few "Could not find disk drive" errors on Windows XP ( never had that error with Pharo 3 and I've been using it every day since it came out).  Am I the only one?  I ran all SUnit tests and the VM crashed "real bad".  Do you guys need logs/dumps/errors on the console ?

 

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