On 23-Nov-09, at 8:42 AM, John M McIntosh wrote:

>> Java folks expect to us URIs everywhere. I wonder how well that  
>> would work in Smalltalk.
>
> I'll play broken record, and say yes we did this in Sophie. All  
> resource references to file like things was via URI.
> We also did the "made-up schema" so that we could refer to cached  
> memory files versus  http: or file:

Ok, but that doesn't answer my question. How well did it work? What  
was good about it? What was bad about it? Was it a natural fit in  
Smalltalk, or did it take some shoehorning to make it work?

Colin