[Help-smalltalk] Re: [feature] <import: PoolDict> for namespaces

[Paolo Bonzini]

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Project:      GNU Smalltalk
Version:      <none>
Component:    VM
Category:     feature requests
Priority:     normal
Assigned to:  Unassigned
Reported by:  S11001001
Updated by:   bonzinip
Status:       committed

The implementation is okay, and obviously you cannot reexport via #at:
as that would require computing a linearization of the namespaces on
every #at:.  In practice, that would mean that A.Var would not refer to
a Var defined in a shared pool of A.

However I am not sure that it's good to not make the import work for
classes defined in a subspace, because that means that I cannot just
take a class defined in A and wrap it into /Namespace current: B [ ]/
to move it into /A.B/.  Can you convince me otherwise?

Would it be difficult to implement?  I imagine you'd use something like
the complete TwistedPools with the superspace replacing the environment
(which simplifies things in turn).