On 30.09.2017, at 01:42, David T. Lewis lewis@mail.msen.com wrote:
According to the update stream history at http://files.squeak.org/history, NullEncoder and friends were added in 1466EncodingFilters-MPW.cs by MPW:
Object subclass: #NullEncoder NullEncoder subclass: #FlattenEncoder FlattenEncoder subclass: #ByteEncoder ByteEncoder subclass: #PrintableEncoder PrintableEncoder subclass: #PrintEncoder PrintableEncoder subclass: #PropertyListEncoder PrintableEncoder subclass: #StoreEncoder
According to SqueakMap, MPW is Mark McCahill (mccahill@duke.edu).
No, thats Marcel Weiher. He did a quite a lot Squeak/Postscript Stuff. I CC'ed him.
Marcel, can you comment on the Encoder Hierarchie? (Full thread here)
Best regards -Tobias
According to Wikipedia, Mark McCahill at Duke is this guy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_P._McCahill
According to the method time stamps, these classes date back to January 1901, so probably actually 2001.
Dave