[Pharo5] Improvements for Anonymous classes

> On 21 Aug 2015, at 08:38, Marcus Denker <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Besides cleaning for the bootstrap, another thing we did yesterday was improving handling of
> Anonymous classes.
>
> 1) you can now browse methods of anonymous classes with nautilus *if* they inherit from Object (the main case)
>
> myClass := Object newAnonymousSubclass. myClass compile: 'test ^5'. myClass browse
>
> 2) #classInstaller for anonymous classes now returns an AnonymousClassInstaller
>
> 3) class builder name checking was fixed to not raise an error for the “names” used for Anonymous classes
>
> ==> you can use #addSlot: on anonymous classes.
>
>
> To improve:
>
> - browser should show some kind of class definition so one can see the superclass
> - it would be nice to be able to browse "Behavior new”, but in most cases people use
>  anon subclasses of existing classes, so not that important.
>
> Marcus

> Hi, where can I read more about anonymous classes. They look like amazing stuff to be used in tests.
>
> Uko
>
>
>> On 21 Aug 2015, at 08:38, Marcus Denker <[hidden email]> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Besides cleaning for the bootstrap, another thing we did yesterday was improving handling of
>> Anonymous classes.
>>
>> 1) you can now browse methods of anonymous classes with nautilus *if* they inherit from Object (the main case)
>>
>> myClass := Object newAnonymousSubclass. myClass compile: 'test ^5'. myClass browse
>>
>> 2) #classInstaller for anonymous classes now returns an AnonymousClassInstaller
>>
>> 3) class builder name checking was fixed to not raise an error for the “names” used for Anonymous classes
>>
>> ==> you can use #addSlot: on anonymous classes.
>>
>>
>> To improve:
>>
>> - browser should show some kind of class definition so one can see the superclass
>> - it would be nice to be able to browse "Behavior new”, but in most cases people use
>>   anon subclasses of existing classes, so not that important.
>>
>> Marcus
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