Hi Esteban,
Which first "class attribute" are you referring to? Is it a pragma? Can you
provide an example please ?
Thanx
Noury
On Aug 17 2021, at 10:31 pm, Esteban Maringolo wrote:
> I don't understand the request?
>
> Wouldn't tagging methods as private (as a first class attribute, and
> not
Hi Noury,
In Dolphin Smalltalk and in IBM/VA Smalltalk, methods can be private,
it's a special attribute of the CompiledMethod, so the visibility
doesn't depend on a category name convention, and you can have both
public and private methods sharing a single category. I used that
attribute extensiv
As Esteban pointed out there are some dialects with proper support for
that. But the semantics is the same as in Pharo, you can still send these
messages.
It is more a warning to the programmer, and the browser shows you these
methods with a particular icon or has tabs so you can easily filter out
I found this useful when creating commercial frameworks for VAST. For
instance, in the printing framework, I used the idea of a turtle (from
turtlegraphics) to create pages. All the turtle commands - turn(50) etc - were
public but the code that actually created the printing code was all private
