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From: zviki@tx.technion.ac.il (Cohen Zviki)
Subject: Re: categories
Organization: Technion, Israel Institute of Technology
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 1995 16:01:18 GMT
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	Hello !

HLW ABCS (hlwabcs@aol.com) wrote:
: I am working with IBM Smalltalk and Visual Age.

: I was wondering if any other Smalltalk dialects implement instance method
: categories.  I would also like to know if they have found wide-spread
: acceptance, and what the heck most people use them for?

	They are also used in VisualWorks, and, to be honest, when you read
the VW system code it does much better use of categories. Methods are 
categorized to accessing, changing, updating, actions, aspects, initialize, etc.
while the IBM smalltalk doesn't really do anything interesting with it (mostly 
because the methods are separated to applications, which is not the case with
VW 2.0 - single user version).

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