[Cuis-dev] A suggestion for Cuis Meeting

Hernán Wilkinson hernan.wilkinson at 10pines.com
Tue Apr 1 08:50:49 PDT 2025


Bobby Wolf suggested the same thing of documenting just the superclass
methods in his paper "Polymorphic Hierarchies", a paper of 1996 😛😛😛
Here is the link:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/jyy87o2a3ljdr7w/Polymorphic%20Hierarchy.pdf?dl=0

On Tue, Apr 1, 2025 at 8:48 AM Luciano Notarfrancesco via Cuis-dev <
cuis-dev at lists.cuis.st> wrote:

> Hi Hilaire,
> I have a couple of suggestions:
> If only comments are changed, I’d try to keep the original author initials.
> Also, I’d suggest to focus on documenting the main protocols instead of
> internal details that might change.
> And finally a thing I do in my projects: when I have a hierarchy of
> classes and a method is implemented in many of them, I only comment the
> method in the superclass (I avoid copying the comment to the
> implementations in subclasses because changing it later is harder, better
> keep things in one place).
> And finally finally, someone in other project was recently talking about
> “four types of documentation” and posted this link where the idea is
> explained, I thought you might find it interesting too:
> https://docs.divio.com/documentation-system/
>
> Cheers,
> Luciano
>
> On Tue, Apr 1, 2025 at 00:15 Hilaire Fernandes via Cuis-dev <
> cuis-dev at lists.cuis.st> wrote:
>
>> For this Wednesday we can make a test drive.
>>
>> Naive idea:
>>
>> - we pickup a class or hierarchy we want to improve the understanding
>> with comments, code examples,...
>>
>> - One will share its screen with the latest Cuis-Smalltalk-dev image,
>> this person will be the editor. Suggestion: should be a native English
>> writer
>>
>> - I can still video record the experience
>>
>> Advice on the set up ?
>>
>> Opinion on class to work on?
>>
>>
>> -- http://mamot.fr/@drgeo
>>
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