Swan, Dean <Dean_Swan at Mitel.COM> asked:

> This is just my opinion, but I'm in no hurry to see
> category names like 'CLDT-Number' in Squeak.  What
> does 'CLDT' stand for?

CLDT stands for 'Common Language Data Types'
In IBM Smalltalk there are other abbreviations of that kind:

CLIM  Common Language Implementation
CPM   Common Process Model
CFS    Common File System
CG      Common Graphics Subsystem
CW     Common Widget Subsystems
CP      Common Printing Subsystem
EW     Extended Widget Subsystem


I think CLDT, CLIM, CPM are taken form the ANSI standard.

The documentation for IBM Smalltalk Vs. 6.0 can be downloaded from

http://www-3.ibm.com/software/ad/smalltalk/library/v6docs.html
IBM Smalltalk Programmers Guide (2.8 MBytes in PDF)
This documentation does not say what is ANSI and what isn't,
so it is possbily not very helpful.

Greetings, Boris