[squeak-dev] Re: The future of Squeak & Pharo (was Re: [Pharo-project] [ANN] Pharo MIT license clean)

Yoshiki Ohshima yoshiki at vpri.org
Mon Jun 29 22:02:28 UTC 2009


At Mon, 29 Jun 2009 11:13:24 +0200,
Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> 
> You're free to have your opinion on Han unification.  Many people share 
> it, many people don't.  But the fact is, only Squeak does it this way 
> and it does have as many problems as it solves.
> 
> For another way to encode languages see 
> http://www.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2482.txt.

  As Eliot wrote, an interactive environment has different constraint.
#at: is one of them, and $- notation for specifying a character
etc. (say print-it for it should print something) should provide some
workable solution.

  I think a future version basically shouldn't try to "print" a
Chararacter, but print out the code point and to display a character,
you do have to supply the extra infomation.  (Character object is
convenient, but you can go with all String objects, if you like.)

-- Yoshiki



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