I am currently using the Cuis, which doesn't having a 'SmalltalkImage current' refactoring.. And this difference is a bit frustrating to me, especially when code which have to be ported from Squeak, i need to visit all the places and fix the references. I was not here when this change was introduced, and you maybe know , that i'm a heated enemy of global state. But i understand the reasoning of dissection the Smalltalk dictionary of globals from the rest of service methods & additional state, which is needed and which were putted in SmalltalkImage class. But the more i thinking about it, the more i feel that this 'dissection' can be done in least intrusive way which is much friendlier to 'old ways' but also plays well with 'current ways'. So, what i'm proposing: - make a dictionary of globals a pure dictionary, without any extra unrelated methods. - completely move all fat stuff into SmalltalkImage from SystemDictionary class - add 'globals' ivar to SmalltalkImage class , and add proxy methods for accessing the dictionary, like #at: #at:put: etc. then simply: Smalltalk at: #Smalltalk put: (SmalltalkImage current). Now, Smalltalk == SmalltalkImage current and everyone is happy: - dictionary lives in separate ivar, - fat & boring housekeeping stuff lives in SmalltalkImage instance. What you think? -- Best regards, Igor Stasenko AKA sig.