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Re: Ring - model infrastructure for Pharo

Posted by Stéphane Ducasse on Dec 13, 2010; 8:47am
URL: https://forum.world.st/Ring-model-infrastructure-for-Pharo-tp3081971p3085095.html

> 1 ring to rule all meta-models.
> Cool :-)

who told you :)
You are the first one to guess for the name :)

Stef

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> I struggled with MC and its meta-model while working with on the Clic project.
> In Clic I changed the class definition message. But, MC does not support such situations.
> So, I ended up doing some complex workarounds.
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> Hope that Ring will help solving such situations.
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> Noury
> On 10 déc. 2010, at 14:32, Veronica Isabel Uquillas Gomez wrote:
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>> Dear all,
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>> I am currently working on the Ring, an unifying and foundational model infrastructure for Pharo.
>> The goals are:
>> - Provide a common API at structural and runtime level
>> - Allow tools to interact and integrate directly with the host environment (Pharo)
>> - Support history analysis
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>> I started comparing the APIs of RB, MethodReference, Pseudo classes, MC, Smalltalk itself and Ginsu, as a basic to build the Ring.
>> So far I have implemented the main classes including the ones that should replace MethodReference and the Pseudo classes.
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>> An unified API will imply changes in most of the ones mentioned above (as most of them are non-polymorphic).  
>> As a first step, I would like to have your opinion about the proposal for replacing MethodReference (attached file).
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>> Best Regards,
>> Veronica Uquillas
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>> <Ring-forMethodReference.pdf>
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