[Cuis] [Philosophy] Do we need pool dictionaries?

[Sean P. DeNigris]

Juan Vuletich-4 wrote
> I don't like pooldictionaries. They look like "hidden globals" to me, 
> and they are as bad as regular globals. Maybe there were good reasons 
> for them 30 years ago, but I don't see any today, except for
> compatibility.

I agree that they should be avoided if possible, but they seem useful e.g.
for NativeBoost in Pharo. There are many C constants, and you'd like to
refer to them directly so you can copy/paste from documentation, and so that
you don't have to context switch as much when writing C calls. With shared
pools, you can import them into the namespace of all classes that directly
access the library.



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Cheers,
Sean
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