On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 11:06:45PM -0500, Bijan Parsia wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, Lex Spoon wrote:
> [snip]
> > And I'll propose a modification of your scheme: store Squeak "scripts"
> > as small image segments.  Have the minimal 2M image used for simply
> > executing scripts, and have a 6M image around that's used for editting
> > them.
> 
> Ok, clearly the minimal 2M image is going to include a compiler, etc. So
> why not do the Python thing and let users compose their sciprts as text
> files and compile them on first run to .stc (analogous to .pyc) files
> (aka, image segments)?

The '.stc' file name suffix is used by Smalltalk/X for a different
purpose, so some other naming convention would be preferred. Also
in use: '.sty' (TeX) and '.sts' (Squeak plugins).

Dave