You are very right - it hadn’t sunk in that a compiled method attribute would
give you what you want - but then we are back to an easily extendible browser …
which I think calypso actually is … hmm should be quite easily doable to get
all described here - and show private methods in a private c
Hi,
Smalltalk should be readable - so I dislike the prefix approach like "_"
or "priv".
Pharo has a unified property API so one can annotate both: methods and
classes
(unfortunately not yet serialized into Tonel). It could be used to
depict a scope or other:
MyClass propertyAt: #scope pu
If something, I'd rather have _ as a prefix indicating a private
method, very much like Dart does.
But why use a "syntax" trick when it could be an attribute of the
CompiledMethod itself?
As for many private methods being a code smell... it could be, but it
depends, until you find the right abstra
As many have described, I’ve seen this work reasonably well too - while I’ve
seen the pvt prefix convention, I’ve also seen _name used to - which I felt was
marginally better (it also means private methods get grouped at the top of the
“all list” and not alphabetically in the middle’ish (but it’
