On 4/28/10, Brent Pinkney <brent@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-disco... 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