Method categories
VAST supports method categorization. Method categories have no effect on the operation of a class. They are a convenience provided to programmers for organizing methods. Categories are entirely optional, but are turned on by default. For information on how customize the browsers so that method categories are not displayed, see “Setting up, customizing, and extending the system: Setting up Smalltalk images” in Smalltalk User Guide.
Some reasons why you might want to use categories are:
•To denote public interface methods from internal methods
•To group methods by function (for example, a Printing category that contains all of the methods used by the class for printing)
Of course, developers can use any categorization scheme they decide on.
Methods can have no category, in which case the category pane of a browser will display Not Categorized. Also, a method can belong to more than one category.
Last modified date: 07/23/2020