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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