[ENH][ANN] 99% Of All ANSI Messages In Change Set

Conrad Taylor conradwt at yahoo.com
Mon May 1 19:14:00 UTC 2000


Hi, will this be available for Squeak 2.8a?

Thanks,

-Conrad

--- "R. A. Harmon" <harmonra at webname.com> wrote:
> This is a incomplete implementation.  It adds
> missing ANSI methods, or
> changes existing methods to conforming ANSI
> behavior, so that when installed
> Squeak will contain 99% of all the messages
> specified in the ANSI standard.
> I am awaiting the release of the Camp Smalltalk ANSI
> Tests to finish the
> final 1%.
> 
> Beware!  There are subtle differences between the
> behavior specified by the
> ANSI standard for some methods already present in
> Squeak.  I did not check
> if the differences broke existing code except for
> obvious errors I
> discovered using Squeak.
> 
> The Fundamental, Valuable, Exception, Numeric, and
> Date And Time protocols
> are complete and tested.
> 
> All but a few of the ANSI standard Collection
> protocol messages have been
> added or changed, and tested in an ad hoc fashion.
> 
> I have not implemented the Stream, and FileStream
> protocols as yet.
> 
> I reformatted all my method's code using pretty
> printing.
> 
> The Squeak 2.7 change set is now available at my web
> page:
>  
>          http://homepage2.rconnect.com/raharmon/
> 
> I hope it can be incorporated into the Squeak
> Central release.
> 
> --
> Richard A. Harmon          "The only good zombie is
> a dead zombie"
> harmonra at webname.com           E. G. McCarthy
> Spencer, Iowa
> 
> 

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