Hey!
Just for some "food for thought", you may want to read the parts under heading "Literal
Smalltalk arrays" and the section following - "Sidestory: Adding literal Dictionaries to
Smalltalk?"
...at:
http://goran.krampe.se/2012/05/08/literal-arrays-vs-json-vs-ston-vs-tirade/
regards, Göran
Yes, that is a good write up, touching on all kinds of aspects, balanced too.
Pretty complicated subject, right ? ;-)
:)
As you mention it is quite hard to reach an agreement.
Objectives/goals are different for everybody.
Since we had those discussions long ago, I've actually grown quite used to
writing
{ #foo->1. #bar->2 } asDictionary
#{ #foo->1. #bar->2 } could do it for literal ones :)
I know it is not super efficient, or super compact, but I can certainly live
with it.
