[squeak-dev] Re: A comparative article (was STON - Smalltalk
Object Notation)
Levente Uzonyi
leves at elte.hu
Thu May 10 10:14:26 UTC 2012
On Thu, 10 May 2012, H. Hirzel wrote:
> Hello
>
> A question about dynamic arrays
>
> Goran writes that he thinks they were introduced in Squeak?
Göran wrote:
"It is simply a dynamic {} array (was introduced originally in Squeak I believe)
but with the assumption that the expressions all evaluate to Associations
that are limited to a string as key."
So it's not about dynamic arrays, but arrays created with the brace
syntax. And yes, that was introduced in Squeak.
Btw OrderedCollections are dynamic arrays.
Levente
> Is this correct? If yes when? References?
> Which other Smalltalk dialects do have them?
>
> Regards
> Hannes
>
>
> On 5/8/12, Janko Mivšek <janko.mivsek at eranova.si> wrote:
> [...snip]
>>
>> Dne 08. 05. 2012 09:55, piše Göran Krampe:
>>> Hi guys!
>>>
>>> I just posted an article about JSON/STON/Literal arrays/Tirade - and it
>>> is probably easiest to read at planet.smalltalk.org (my blog has a
>>> rather bad theme I realized):
>>>
>>> http://planet.smalltalk.org
>>>
>>> ...or at my blog:
>>>
>>> http://goran.krampe.se/2012/05/08/literal-arrays-vs-json-vs-ston-vs-tirade
>>>
>>> Sven - sorry for beating down a bit on STON in that article, nothing
>>> personal and I love all the stuff you have done, I just have a hard time
>>> placing STON in my toolbox. If you can give me good arguments why I am
>>> dead wrong - please do! ;)
>>>
>>> And regarding Tirade, feel free to criticize that too of course, it is
>>> still not set in stone and all input is appreciated, including telling
>>> me it sucks :).
>>>
>>> The most interesting bit of the article is perhaps my thoughts on
>>> literals in Smalltalk - would be nice to hear what people thinḱ. And oh,
>>> sorry for the length of the article - it kinda swelled.
>>>
>>> regards, Göran
>
>
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