Le Lundi 30 juin 2003, à 05:12 , Lex Spoon a écrit :

> Stephane Ducasse <ducasse at iam.unibe.ch> wrote:
>
>> I can easily understand that for historical reasons, the chunk format
>> was a
>> good answer for storage of smalltalk code. Now more than 30 years later
>> we can fix the problems of these stupid strings that prevent us to 
>> build
>> better tools.
>
>
> This flame war went around a few (?) months ago.
>
> Two things that haven't been mentioned since the last time are:
>
> 	1. You can perfectly well treat Squeak's format as a declarative 
> format
> if you want to.  Absolutely any file format is going to be built of
> "stupid strings", you know, and you can parse Squeak's format perfectly
> well.  The class "Parser" should give a good start at it.  Also, I
> believe some of the various analysis tools floating around have a "chunk
> parser".

The FileContentsBrowser is already considering Squeak's format as 
declarative
with the help of PseudoClass, PseudoClassOrganizers, and PseudoMetaclass.

> 	2. There is another format around that should not be ignored: the SIF
> format based on the ANSI spec.  Readers and writers are available on the
> Internet.
>
>
> Lex
>