On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 01:29:05PM +0100, Guenther Schmidt wrote:

> Does it realy come down to if byte = xxx ... else ... else ...? I mean 
> this doesn't seem very OO to me.

    Are you familiar with normal parser construction techniques?
There is a wealth of literature on constructing parsers, and
many parser generators, possibly for smalltalk. Why don't you
use one of those