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Recently a Spec documentation was released on-line, how it is related with the Polymorph project? It would be nice to read about the future of these projects. Is Polymorph discontinued?
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polymorph (plural polymorphs) (biology) Any organism that shows polymorphism. (chemistry, geology) Any substance or mineral that forms different types of crystal. (transitive, fiction) The transformation of an item or creature into something different by magic.
polymorphism, in crystallography, the condition in which a solid chemical compound exists in more than one crystalline form; the forms differ somewhat in physical and, sometimes, chemical properties, although their solutions and vapours are identical.
Aragonite and calcite are polymorphs – both contain calcium carbonate (CaCO3) but have different internal structures. Another common polymorph is a carbon (C) – graphite (used in pencils) and diamonds are both made of pure carbon.
Polymorphism occurs when a chemical compound crystallizes with different internal structures. ICH Q6A defines polymorphism as “some new drug substances exist in different crystalline forms which differ in their physical properties.
Polymorph is a UI framework. Spec is a UI description framework based on literal arrays.
In other words the widgets you see on the screen come from Polymorph. A UI builder takes a Spec specification and builds those widgets: "here's a button of this size, and this is its name".
In Squeak, the same relationship exists between Morphic or MVC, and ToolBuilder.
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