Hi Koen - is there any particular place you would like us to feedback on the posts? Is here useful, or some other location?
I like the concepts you are introducing (I need to take to read your PHD - so good to have the link in there) - but the devil is in the detail of course. If I have understood correctly - the idea of computed classifications give rise to the flexibility we all crave? So in my previous comment - when designing a new class and trying to work out its protocol, in particular how to instantiate it vs. update it - its very inconvenient to have to flip between class and instance method definitions - a much flatter view of a Class has both instance AND class methods that I can see together is more efficient to work with in that initial design phase vs later when stabilised the more traditional - a Class name has Class and Instance definition, a Class definition has class methods, an Instance definition has instance methods (apologies if terminology isn't quite right - typing this in a hurry on a break). But does the classification model handle the above? To flatten instance and class methods into a single sorted list (discriminated in some manner - like one being bold or having some prefix) and also allowing you to add to add new items to that list and provide that discrimination sounds like it might not fit that classification model? Or maybe it does? I guess we do currently allow methods to have categories and we can view multiple categories in a list. I guess I'm curious how it hangs together to model non-trivial examples? And maybe this is the next blog post? Thanks for surfacing the ideas. Tim On Mon, 18 Mar 2024, at 5:51 PM, Koen De Hondt wrote: > Dear Pharo users and developers, > > Last week I told you about a new blog post that outlined the objectives of > the Atlas browser. It was the first post of a series. > If you liked it, I invite you to read the next post > <https://all-objects-all-the-time.st/#/blog/posts/7>. It describes the > Classification Model, which is the foundation of Atlas. > > Happy reading! > > Ciao, > Koen
