The limit is 256 literals per method. However, a literal array is still just one literal. So you can put all your data into one literal if you want:#(( value 2 cost -3 step 2 defense 3 combatMove 7 fullMove 14 carry 10 lift 20 death 20 unconscious 11 woundThreshold 4 recovery 05 mysticArmor 0 ) ( value 2 cost -3 step 2 defense 3 combatMove 7 fullMove 14 carry 10 lift 20 death 20 unconscious 11 woundThreshold 4 recovery 05 mysticArmor 0 ) ) Then just iterate over it (#do: for the outer array, #pairsDo: is handy for the inner) to construct your objects. Btw, you surely would like to make a class and not just use dictionaries ;)
256 literals per method seems find to me, initializing such a large dictionary was unusual for me and something of an experiment (mainly to avoid reading from a file at all). I had the data in YAML that I just wrote a small script to generate smalltalk code from. I didn't make a class mainly because I don't need the data for anything more than lookups dictionaries give me. I'll give your suggestion above a try but might just convert the YAML to XML or CSV and read the table in from the file. Maybe as an array of RecordEntry instead of using a dictionary. I will have a need for a database (or some persistence layer) later in the project, so might just bite the bullet now. Thanks, Robert _______________________________________________ Beginners mailing list Beginners@lists.squeakfoundation.org http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/beginners
