OmniBrowser looks interesting. I haven't installed anything new in my
Squeak image yet. I'm guessing I just need to download the .st file
for OmniBrowser and do a fileIn on it. Is there anything else I need
to do to make it available in my image?
On Aug 13, 2007, at 10:37 AM, David Mitchell wrote:
Sure, but Smalltalkers wouldn't wait for the first run of the program
to create the accessors. And, unlike Ruby, once you ran the create
accessor code, the accessors would be part of the code that goes under
version control.
This is one of the big differences between Ruby and Smalltalk. In
Smalltalk, there isn't much distinction between runtime and edit time.
Technically, there isn't any distinction. Even when you are editing
code, you are in some sense running the eventual application.
In fact, Smalltalkers often keep their application running as they
make changes.
Take a look at:
CreateAccessorsForVariableRefactoring
Which you can invoke by right clicking on a class in the OmniBrowser
and choosing "accessors for instvar".
No reason you couldn't invoke such code at "runtime".
On 8/13/07, Mark Volkmann <mark@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Is it possible to write code that adds methods to a class at
runtime. In
particular I'm thinking about something like attr_accessor in Ruby
which
adds get and set methods for instance variables so you don't have
to write
them.
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Mark Volkmann
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