[squeak-dev] "Pharoism" package?

casey.obrien.r casey.obrien.r at gmail.com
Fri Aug 5 17:09:55 UTC 2011


+1

On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 9:33 AM, Frank Shearar <frank.shearar at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I did some work yesterday [1] getting Coral (a scripting framework for
> Pharo: http://www.squeaksource.com/Coral.html) working in Trunk. I
> made a few adjustments to Coral itself, mailing Oscar Nierstrasz the
> changes (what look to be getting Coral to work with the latest
> Filesystem code, post-large-refactor), and had to add a few methods to
> Squeak that Coral was expecting. Presumably these were methods renamed
> by Pharo:
>
> Character >> join:
> String >> join:
> Class >> addInstVarNamed:
> MetaClass >> addInstVarNamed:
> Class >> subclass:
> SmalltalkImage >> vmFullPath
> Symbol >> isBinary
>
> My question's a bit broader: there are many more Pharo developers than
> Squeak developers, it seems. They're doing lots of cool stuff. We can
> easily port these cool things to Squeak (at least, at the moment). If
> anyone else is doing this kind've thing, perhaps it's worthwhile
> either adding these kinds of methods to Grease, or having a general
> "Pharoisms" package.
>
> It's not all one-way, of course: having things easily loadable into
> Squeak means that Squeak hackers (like me) can more easily contribute
> to interesting packages (like Coral) without having to keep track of
> two communities. (Coral could, with some love, become a full REPL,
> which is something I really want.)
>
> frank
>
> [1]
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6938114/a-smalltalk-implementation-with-the-perfect-feature-set/6948945#6948945
>
>


-- 
Casey Ransberger
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