Class comments within .change files are anonymous doits

R. A. Harmon harmonra at webname.com
Mon Jan 31 11:07:44 UTC 2000


At 06:10 PM 1/30/00 -0600, Les Tyrrell wrote:
>Lex Spoon wrote:
>> 
>> One easy way to fix this would be to use ANSI SIF as the standard
>> interchange format, instead of traditional fileouts.  SIF makes
>> everything quite explicit.  Someone has posted SIF code to this list
>> before; I don't recall the details.
[snip]
>
>One thing that could interfere, though- I don't know if the
>standard for SIF will accomodate Squeak's style and stamp
>information- the style information often contains hyperlinks,
>and the stamps might contain versioning information.
[snip]

In a previous SIF version I had accommodated style information in annotation
comments.  I put the comment out in a comment annotation and the style as a
run array store string value in a second annotation with a key of
"commentStyle".  This mechanism was general enough to handle style in method
source, etc.

I also added a similar mechanism to handle multiple categories with the
primary category in the "category" annotation and an array of secondary
categories store string in a second annotation with key "categoryList".

I don't think this broke the standard, but it added some complexity so I
dropped it when I ported my Squeak SIF to Dolphin.

I've still got the code to do it.  It was an experiment in how to do it
within SIF limits.

I think a portable style standard should probably be used.

--
Richard A. Harmon          "The only good zombie is a dead zombie"
harmonra at webname.com           E. G. McCarthy
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