Re: [Help-smalltalk] .st file naming

[Jan Vrany]

Hi, 
> Even in Java this is not completely true, as you have inner classes.
> On Fri, 2015-04-03 at 22:32 +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:

> On 03/04/2015 13:07, Jan Vrany wrote:
> > while playing with GST, I found bit difficult to navigate 
> > through code. For example, source code for class Exception 
> > is in file kernel/ExcHandling.st. So I have to grep all the time. 
> > 
> > I wonder why is it so? Wouldn't it be better to have one file
> > per class name, like in Java?
> 

Indeed, but still, much more predictable. 

> In GNU Smalltalk most classes have a 1:1 correspondence with files.  In
> the case of ExcHandling.st, the reason why you have two files is
> historical---that file used to have the whole implementation of
> instance-based (IBM Smalltalk) exceptions, including bits now in
> BlkClosure.st.  Splitting it in Exception.st and ExceptionSet.st would
> make a lot of sense, and there are probably some similar cases elsewhere.
> 
> When splitting files one could take the occasion for creating
> subdirectories of kernel/ as well.

> At the same time, I think it would be pointless to split AnsiExcept.st
> in 40 or 50 files.  

Why it would be pointless? 

> Sure, you can, but the kernel GNU Smalltalk code is
> not meant to be edited in a browser, 

Well, this sort of spoils the whole idea of having smalltalkish
IDE...

> since it needs to redefine some
> methods during initialization and the order of the doits (Evals) is very
> important too.

Yeah, I feared that there are cases like this. But maybe we can work out
a way to solve this...

Jan