On Feb 20, 2009, at 8:44 AM, Keith Hodges wrote:
Stéphane Ducasse wrote:
But we do not want hacks. :) and hidden dependencies. Frankly I do not understand why this is not possible to use a method (since a method is a script with a name).
Because methods have to compile, or they are not accepted.
In bob's case these are scripts that will run in a different image, so do not necessarily compile in Bob's image.
In mantis's case these are the bug reports downloaded for searching and reference purposes.
I dont regard this as a hack since Smalltalk is designed to have this flexibility of supporting differnnt languages, and syntaxes. If you dont like it then why not remove #compilerClass altogether.
If you call this a hack then what is WAFileDirectory? You would think that using methods to store data in the image has never been done before.
but these images do not require to extend the compiler. What I do not understand is how the browse also shows you this extra code at the end of methods. My gut feeling is that there is certainly a clean way to do that.
Keith
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