On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 10:58 AM, Esteban Lorenzano <estebanlm@gmail.com> wrote:

On 30 Jan 2014, at 19:43, Torsten Bergmann <astares@gmx.de> wrote:

> I checked: it was introduced in update no. 30711 with #issue 12163
> including the following statements:
>
>> "Who uses poolDictionaries? I suspect extremely few of us."
>> ...
>> "It would be a bit cleaner. I know us old timers don't even see the  poolDictionaries: line anymore, but >I dislike having to explain it to students."
>
>
> <humor>
> I would also vote for not displaying Traits anymore. It confuses me when I see them.
> Instance variables are also overvalued - we should remove them from the default
> template too. It's just too confusing to have them there.
>
> And categories now make no sense either - we now have real packages. Let's remove them
> since nobody understands them.

he, humor or not, is our objective to replace them for real packages. Is just that we still do not have the time :)

So VMMaker will get completely broken :-(.  Has everyone forgotten IIABDFI?

>
>    Object subclass: #Foo
>
> would be much easier to understand! Maybe we should remove superclass as well - lets
> inherit from Object. Would also avoid deep hierarchies like Morphic ;)
> </humor>
>
> But for real:
> If it is too complicated for students one could build a custom "teaching" image.
>
> From the info I see on the issue tracker it sounds to me like an "academic" change
> - still do not understand the real reason...
>
> Bye
> T.

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best,

Eliot