Pharo has one simple basic rule: everything is an object. But the objects themselves are not entities living in an abstract universe and do not drink the dew of lilies of the valley for breakfast. They exist in the object memory served by the virtual machine. The virtual machine defines an interface that strictly specifiesContinue reading “On the edge of class rules”
Tag Archives: prototyping
Complishon: efficient heuristics for code completion
A couple of weeks ago I started prototyping a new code completion backend. The one available in Pharo 8.0 is good-enough to complete variables and messages to literal objects. However, the accuracy of the completion was pretty low because auto completion candidates were sorted alphabetically, and this was even producing completion pauses for large images.Continue reading “Complishon: efficient heuristics for code completion”
Why can’t Pharo have constructors?
The other day we were talking about Pablo about pre-tenuring objects when discussing about a couple of papers like this one and this other one. These papers describe the idea of pre-tenuring objects for Java. The main idea being to identify allocation sites in the code (e.g., new MyClass(17, true,someObject)), take statistics about the averageContinue reading “Why can’t Pharo have constructors?”
The Pharo Dev: Mastering Objects 