[Help-smalltalk] [feature] <import: PoolDict> for namespaces

[Stephen Compall]

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Project:      GNU Smalltalk
Version:      <none>
Component:    VM
Category:     feature requests
Priority:     normal
Assigned to:  Unassigned
Reported by:  S11001001
Updated by:   S11001001
Status:       committed

The two commits at the tip of my master as I write this:


a9a46e1... add namespace pragmas, like class pragmas, for new syntax   
                           
9d92f75... unexported importation of pools into namespaces for their
classes' methods


Let you do things like this:


Eval [PackageLoader fileInPackages: #('Parser' 'NetClients')]

Namespace current: Test [
   <import: STInST>

   Object subclass: MyTest [
       test [^RBParser]
   ]

   <import: NetClients>

   MyTest extend [
       test2 [^URIResolver]
   ]
]


More or less as documented in sym.c.  Tests are also included, although
namespace pragmas are not tested for Compiler (though the above test
file works).

Accessing pool vars with #at: and friends on the namespace is
explicitly unsupported, as that would be tantamount to always
reexporting imports, which I think would be most unfriendly.  This may
cause issues with Undeclared bindings, that I didn't test for.