Class renaming in Moose Algos Graph

> Ok, this an old thread, but I found that this idea was already implemented in Pharo:
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> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4I7fSVNX2A
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> In order to use it you need to execute:
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> MCHttpRepository
>     location: 'http://www.squeaksource.com/Environments'
>     user: ''
>
>     password: ''
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> I tested it and it works. It only applies to classes that you explicitly define in a package and you need to use a new system browser that is package aware.
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> What do you think about using this on Moose instead of having class prefixes?
>
> Cheers,
> Guillermo.
>
> On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 9:16 AM, Guillermo Schwarz <[hidden email]> wrote:
> Hi Guys,
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> Why don't you do something more focused on the long term and don't you change the Smalltalk compiler with namespaces?
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> I don't think it should be that hard since each class already belongs to a category. Each category could instead be a dictionary from where the compiler could find classes that are mentioned in the class source.
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> This has worked wonders in Java (classes inside packages). This way classes' names can be repeated ad eternum without generating collisions or otherwise polluting excessively the name space.
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> So for example:
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> FAMIXAssociation subclass: #FAMIXInvocation
> instanceVariableNames: 'sender receiver receiverSourceCode signature candidates'
> classVariableNames: ''
> poolDictionaries: ''
> category: 'Famix-Core'
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> Would be instead:
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> Association subclass: #Invocation
> instanceVariableNames: 'sender receiver receiverSourceCode signature candidates'
> classVariableNames: ''
> poolDictionaries: ''
> category: #FamixCore
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> Then the category would be an index in the SystemDictionary:
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> SystemDictionary at: #FamixCore put: Category new.
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> (SystemDictionary at: #FamixCore) belongingClassList add: #Invocation "this should be done automatically by the subclass: method above"
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> (SystemDictionary at: #FamixCore) referencedClassList add: ... "classes that are referenced by classes belonging to category #FamixCore"
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> What do you think?
>
> Cheers,
> Guillermo.
>
> Message: 1
> Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 22:00:33 +0200
> From: Tudor Girba <[hidden email]>
> Subject: [Moose-dev] Re: Class renaming in Moose Algos Graph
> To: Moose-related development <[hidden email]>
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> Hi Simon,
>
> These classes should be called MAlgo (or MAL ?). I started to do that a while ago, but apparently I forgot to commit this change.
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> Cheers,
> Doru
>
>
> On 27 Sep 2010, at 19:42, Simon Denier wrote:
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> >
> > On 27 sept. 2010, at 18:17, Lukas Renggli wrote:
> >
> >> Please note that the MA* (with an uppercase $A) prefix is already
> >> taken by Magritte. Ma* (with a lowercase $a) is taken by Magma, if I
> >> remember correctly they renamed their classes at some point a long
> >> time ago to avoid the conflict with Magritte.
> >
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> --
> Saludos cordiales,
>
> Guillermo Schwarz
> Sun Certified Enterprise Architect
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