[ANSI-Smalltalk] Next STEPs

[Craig Latta]

Hi--

      Martin writes:

 > ...I'd add that we should be careful and not get carried away piling
 > things up too high. There are many good ideas out there that are no
 > doubt handy in many circumstances, but not all of them should go into
 > the standard. It's important that in the end the standard as a whole
 > is powerful, but coherent and that it sticks to the principle of a
 > minimal number of simple but powerful building elements. So let's
 > consider as many suggestions as we can, but let's be very selective in
 > what we actually put in, considering each one in the context of the
 > whole set.
 >
 > If we don't manage to keep the standard "lean and mean", few will be
 > willing to plow through hundreds of pages of it, let alone bother
 > complying with it. Especially if we intend to stick to the existing
 > compliance criteria, where compliant implementation MUST implement
 > everything defined in the standard.

      Hear, hear!


-C

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Craig Latta
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