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Casey Ransberger-2

Smalltalk as an Environment

The other thread about SmalltalkImage current etc gave me a though. Well it was probably that and going through "the environment model" in SICP again the other day. Anyway...

Isn't Smalltalk (mostly anyway) a dictionary of bindings? Isn't that a lot like a namespace?

I realize I'm jumping the shark on this one, but something in the back of my brain thinks maybe SystemDictionary should inherit from Environment or something. Of course I know zilch about the implementation of environments, so there's that.

Nicolas Cellier

Re: Smalltalk as an Environment

SystemDictionary allInstances size -> 0

I guess it was kept for easing transition -> Environment.

And yes, it's a sort of Namespace, see VW implementation for example.

2013/7/21 Casey Ransberger <[hidden email]>

The other thread about SmalltalkImage current etc gave me a though. Well it was probably that and going through "the environment model" in SICP again the other day. Anyway...

Isn't Smalltalk (mostly anyway) a dictionary of bindings? Isn't that a lot like a namespace?

I realize I'm jumping the shark on this one, but something in the back of my brain thinks maybe SystemDictionary should inherit from Environment or something. Of course I know zilch about the implementation of environments, so there's that.