[Moose-dev] Re: MSE: Dealing with Associations
Indeed, simply declaring the type of a parameter is not a reference. However, passing a
class as an argument to a method call is.
> One problem with this approach is that #declaredType property is often overlooked in
dependency analysis (especially since in Smalltalk models this prop is rarely used or even
set). I don't know what could be the impact of collecting #declaredType with the other
dependencies.
> ---> This is actually a problem in MooseChef and could be largely discussed.
That is a good point.
I have the impression that it would be good to have the option to declare declaredType as
reference. Because it would make analyses based on reference sronger and more useful.
I think that we historically did not do it because we do not have that in Smalltalk.
Stef