On Dec 2, 2009, at 10:43 PM, Lukas Renggli wrote:
The rejection of the Kernel, Collections, System is not about the size, it is because of the classes they contain. There are many classes in the system that you can't wrap without possibly harming the system. Especially tricky are classes that are used by the system at all times (so the result would be wrong anyway) and the coverage tools itself (what could result in infinite recursion),
hehehe... and people always say research does not solve practical problems: Marcus Denker, Mathieu Suen, and Stéphane Ducasse. The Meta in Meta-object Architectures. In Proceedings of TOOLS EUROPE 2008, LNBIP 11 p. 218â237, Springer-Verlag, 2008 http://scg.unibe.ch/scgbib?query=Denk08b&display=abstract ... sometimes I have the feeling we learned quite a lot the last years. fundamental things, even. I think it will be interesting how the reflective kernel of Pharo will look like in 5 years. Marcus -- Marcus Denker -- http://www.marcusdenker.de