Cross-dialect binary serialization
Robert Withers
withers at vnet.net
Wed Apr 12 17:37:35 UTC 2000
"R. A. Harmon" wrote:
>
> At 10:52 AM 4/12/00 -0400, Robert Withers wrote:
> >"R. A. Harmon" wrote:
> [snip]
> >> ANSI Date and Time Protocol implementation and SUnit tests for Squeak 2.7 is
> >> available at my web page:
> >>
> >> http://homepage2.rconnect.com/raharmon/
> >>
> >
> >Thanks Richard! I'll be looking at it... Can we get this into the
> >update stream or do we still need to do some work on it?
>
> I think Squeak Central is looking at my implementation of the Fundamental,
> Valuable, Numeric, and Date and Time protocols for possible inclusion in
> their standard release.
Well, silly me. Of course they are, in fact I've been following the
equivalence thread with interest. You certainly have done a lot of work
Richard. I am quite intriged by your protocol framework. Digging
deeper... wannabe Deep Squeaker... ;)
cheers,
-Rob
> The Exception protocol is already included.
>
> I haven't finished the Collection, Stream, and FileStream protocols yet.
>
> If they decide to include my ANSI methods I would use pretty print to
> reformat the code from my idiosyncratic code formatting when I create a
> change set for them if needed.
>
> It will probably require some work on existing code because of the slightly
> different behavior specified by the ANSI standard (see the discussion on the
> #= method).
>
> --
> Richard A. Harmon "The only good zombie is a dead zombie"
> harmonra at webname.com E. G. McCarthy
> Spencer, Iowa
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