On Sun, 28 Jun 2009 19:28:50 +0200, Philippe Marschall wrote:

...
> And don't get me "but we need it for fonts". The only way to get nice
> fonts in Squeak is to avoid it and do it in C with char*.

Can you see the attached (?) : a platform font, displaying #('Basic Latin'  
'Cyrillic'), using standard Squeak libs and VM, its Smalltalk code  
loadable into Cuis, Pharo and Squeak.

No line of C nor char*, other than what is already in the VM and its  
plugins (and currently _nothing_ optimized).

?

> Cheers
> Philippe
>


-- 
"If at first, the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it".  
Albert Einstein
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