Streams in squeak.

Russell Penney russell.penney at tincanct.com
Mon Apr 18 23:13:54 UTC 2005


Goran, 

SharedStreams only handle byte/characters not objects (by my reading of the
comments). What about if you want to pass objects back and forward?

Russell

> -----Original Message-----
> From: squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org [mailto:squeak-dev-
> bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org] On Behalf Of goran.krampe at bluefish.se
> Sent: Monday, 18 April 2005 7:30 PM
> To: The general-purpose Squeak developers list
> Subject: Re: Streams in squeak.
> 
> Hi!
> 
> Ned Konz <ned at squeakland.org> wrote:
> > Further, there isn't a clean model for bidirectional streams
> > (command/response) in Squeak.
> [SNIP]
> > I'd probably use a SharedQueue (which is sort of like a double-ended
> stream)
> > to connect to an I2C handler; its contents would be transaction-level
> objects
> > which would then be converted into a series of I2C messages.
> 
> Let me just mention SharedStreams:
> 
> 	http://map1.squeakfoundation.org/sm/packagebyname/sharedstreams
> 
> ...which is a "better" SharedQueue and also has a bidirectional
> component which thus can be used as a "soft SocketStream" in-image.
> 
> regards, Göran





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