[Cuis-dev] Naming conventions

[Luciano Notarfrancesco]

On Tue, 28 Apr 2020 at 8:52 PM, Juan Vuletich <juan at jvuletich.org> wrote:

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> Without backticks, we'd need to add packages as globals, so they can be
> resolved at runtime. With the backticks we can avoid that, because we
> can give the Compiler the context to resolve package names if in a
> required package, just like class names, at compile time.
>

But that would work regardless of back ticks, right? Erik doesn’t like
backticks very much, I also avoid them in my code.

I just did some experiments changing Class>>bindingOf:. Currently it first
looks in class var names and SharedPools calling localBindingOf:, then it
looks in globals by calling Smalltalk bindingOf:. I added a
packageBindingOf: after localBindingOf:, and if self package is not nil it
tries to resolve the binding within the package. We can put required
packages here and they will look like globals, right? And also resolve
classes of the local package.

I tried one of the ideas: keeping all classes global, but adding a prefix
like ‘PackageName.’ to the binding key in the Smalltalk system dictionary.
I added a Class>>globalName too. Seems to almost work, but tools break all
over the place.


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