Re: Pharo-users Digest, Vol 4, Issue 9

> Thanks for all the replies - this is great!
>>> Got it.  In Squeak, this was the mechanism I used to keep objects from different domains separate,
>> it did not.
> I meant conceptually and visually - the metaphor (seemed to me) of stepping into another room in a house filled with objects, so I could put all my financial stuff "in my home office" and my reference books "in the study."
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>>> Is there a similar (or better) mechanism for this in Pharo?
>> Classes?
> <snip>
>> I think that you misunderstand projects and also the purpose of classes and instances.
>> May be you should read some of the books available on my web page like the art of object-oriented programming.
> Please understand that I am grateful beyond words that people I don't know ( yet :) ) have created, and are maintaining and improving software and reference materials that are transforming my understanding of what's possible with computers.  And...
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> I'm good with OOP (and I read every book about OOP and Smalltalk I could get my hands on, including a few of yours, and enjoyed them all).  What I'm not grokking is: my understanding of Squeak (which I applied to Pharo) from all of Alan Kay's work is that it's moving closer toward an "application-less" virtual world, where all objects can communicate with all others - instead of Microsoft Money holding my financial data hostage in a proprietary data file, and Apple holding my notes in Mail.app data files, *I* hold all these objects (and the system itself), all written in Smalltalk, so I have complete control over my computer world.
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> Now... what I am curious about (and haven't found a book to address), is what (if any) are the strategies one uses to conceptually make sense of a virtual world of possibly thousands of (normally, mostly) unrelated objects.
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> For example, 9 out of 10 times, I probably don't care that I have journal entries alive in my image when I'm processing receipts, but the one time I want to cross-reference the journal for keywords for certain purchases, I want access to them.
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> And all I've seen in reference books is how to develop "an application" in Squeak/Pharo i.e. code that does one conceptual thing e.g. moves a turtle, rolls a die, creates a laser game - which were all totally great, and also did not give me any insight to this particular question.
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> Maybe it's something really obvious to a long-time Smalltalker that no one's bothered to write down?!
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> Thanks again.
> Sean
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