[ANSI-Smalltalk] Next STEPs

[Andres Valloud]

Martin,

On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 8:41 AM, Martin Kobetic <mkobetic at cincom.com> wrote:

> Yup, I like this approach. 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.



I agree.  Hopefully there are things we can pull from our accumulated best
practice experience since 1998 (the year of the ANSI standard) that deserve
special attention.

Andres.
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