[Moose-dev] Re: <MSEClass: #Attribute super: 'FAMIX.StructuralEntity'> vs <MSEClass: #Association super: #FAMIXSourcedEntity>

Hi, On 24 Sep 2011, at 10:21, Stéphane Ducasse wrote: I know. That is why I said I did not like it (=crappy). We had this argument before, but Adrian wanted it this way, and it remained like this. The reason is that sometimes (in 0.001% of cases) you might have an entity that is only defined in Fame but not directly in Smalltalk. In that case, you want to look it up in Fame, not in Smalltalk. Now we can change it and only provide the Smalltalk based lookup. You have the have the fully qualified name, not just the name of the meta description (you might have two in two distinct packages). Fame already provides a lookup based on the fully qualified name, so we can safely use that. See the above explanation. It should :). #FAMIXStructuralEntity points to the name of the Smalltalk class. There is no other way around it. This is the most robust way of referring to the superclass because if we rename the Smalltalk class, the pragma will be updated as well (it's a symbol). So, everywhere we have superclass: we should have the name of the Smalltalk class. Now, that we are at it, we should introduce also only FM3Class: pragma and rely on the default Smalltalk superclass information. Like this we do not have to maintain it at all. Again, this is something I argued a while ago, but did not get introduced. Cheers, Doru -- www.tudorgirba.com "In a world where everything is moving ever faster, one might have better chances to win by moving slower."