You don't want what part of it? An image-based environment? I can agree with that. Immediate and rich feedback OTOH...
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Replying to @robotlolita @stilkov and
Immediate feedback is great. But can be done without source stored in an image.
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I think we disagree on Smalltalk's strengths being the use of an image-based format to store programs, then.
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Replying to @robotlolita @wycats and
To me Smalltalk's strengths are much more in the language's semantics and integrated set of reflective tooling w/ immediate feedback.
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Replying to @robotlolita @stilkov and
I'm a fan of those. Ruby has a good amount of the language level semantics. Someone should build a class browser for ruby!
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IMHO lexical scoping at the top level isn't very compatible with the kind of editors Smalltalk had.
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Replying to @wycats @robotlolita and
"integrated set of reflective tooling with immediate feedback" doesn't seem to depend on this very much?
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Unless your scope is first-class and names there late-bound, you can't change it without VM hacks (e.g.: what Chrome debugger does)
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Replying to @robotlolita @wycats and
But more than that, it's just hard to find boundaries that convey accurate information to the user if your method depends on outer local var
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Methods in Ruby don't depend on outer var because methods create fresh non-closure scopes. As do classes and modules.
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