I don't understand the request? Wouldn't tagging methods as private (as a first class attribute, and not only its category) be enough?
What you ask for seems to be a splitted method dictionary of some sort. Having first class private methods would save you from autocomplete selector "pollution" of private methods. Regards! Esteban A. Maringolo On Tue, Aug 17, 2021 at 5:14 PM Craig Johnson <cr...@hivemind.net> wrote: > > Hi All, > > > Just a newb off-the-wall question. > > Is there any good reason why we can't create a true private method in a > Pharo class by putting that method inside an instance or class variable > as a lambda (block). > > > This would reduce one of my biggest bugbears with Pharo, namely the > pollution of the global namespace with every single message name in the > entire system. > > > > Craig
