[squeak-dev] Re: A comparative article (was STON - Smalltalk Object Notation)

Dale Henrichs dhenrich at vmware.com
Thu May 10 15:24:50 UTC 2012


GemStone supports the {} array constructor syntax.

----- Original Message -----
| From: "H. Hirzel" <hannes.hirzel at gmail.com>
| To: "The general-purpose Squeak developers list" <squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
| Cc: Pharo-project at lists.gforge.inria.fr
| Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2012 4:25:31 AM
| Subject: Re: [squeak-dev] Re: A comparative article (was STON - Smalltalk	Object Notation)
| 
| On 5/10/12, Levente Uzonyi <leves at elte.hu> wrote:
| > 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.
| 
| Any idea when and for which reason?
| 
| Where are they used these days?
| 
| Which other Smalltalk dialects have adopted it?
| 
| 
| >
| > 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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