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stephane ducasse

About literalDictionary

Hi levente

I saw that literalDictionary was removed from squeak compiler.
Can you tell us the reason?
Tx

Stef

Nicolas Cellier

Re: About literalDictionary

It has a single method and can be easily replaced with a PluggableDictionary

Nicolas

2010/10/31 stephane ducasse <[hidden email]>:
> Hi levente
>
> I saw that literalDictionary was removed from squeak compiler.
> Can you tell us the reason?
> Tx
>
> Stef
>
>

Levente Uzonyi-2

Re: About literalDictionary

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On Sun, 31 Oct 2010, stephane ducasse wrote:

> Hi levente
>
> I saw that literalDictionary was removed from squeak compiler.
> Can you tell us the reason?

- one class less in the system
- one class less in the HashedCollection hierarchy, so it will be easier
to migrate HashedCollections to the new object format
- we have a nice example for PluggableDictionary

Levente

> Tx
>
> Stef
>
>

Stéphane Ducasse

Re: About literalDictionary

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ok thanks!

On Oct 31, 2010, at 9:23 PM, Levente Uzonyi wrote:

> On Sun, 31 Oct 2010, stephane ducasse wrote:
>
>> Hi levente
>>
>> I saw that literalDictionary was removed from squeak compiler.
>> Can you tell us the reason?
>
> - one class less in the system
> - one class less in the HashedCollection hierarchy, so it will be easier to migrate HashedCollections to the new object format
> - we have a nice example for PluggableDictionary
>
>
> Levente
>
>> Tx
>>
>> Stef
>>
>>
>