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Nicolas Petton

[Fwd: Re: iliad and blocks]

Le lundi 22 juin 2009 à 14:03 +0200, Paolo Bonzini a écrit :
> Hi, I was going to write this as a comment to one of Joachim's post but
> maybe it's better to post here. The relevant post is
> http://smalltalk.gnu.org/blog/joe/one-step-further-iliad and some
> comments may not make sense without referring to there.
>
> Joachim builds a PageTemplate widget, and I'm not sure I like the idea
> of returning blocks from the methods there (like #mainContent).

Why don't you like it? I think blocks are expressive and less verbose
here.

> I would
> rather use something like #renderMainContentOn:
>
> UrPics.PageTemplate subclass: UnknownHome [
> renderMainContentOn: e [
> e h1: 'UnknownHome Object!'.
> ]
> ]
>
>
> Another idea could be to add
>
> BlockClosure extend [
> renderOn: e [ self value: e ]
> ]
>
> and implement Widget>>renderOn: like this
>
> renderOn: e [ e add: self build ]
>
> This way, you could simply return "^Login new" from the message #login
> in Joachim's Menu widget.
>
> Now maybe I misunderstood Iliad's architecture (which I haven't looked
> at in detail yet), so the above does not make sense.

No, it could make sense.

> Just throwing 2 cents.
>
> Paolo
>
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