[Pharo-dev] STON and (default) line endings

[Peter Uhnak]

Hi,

can we have a class-side configuration for STON line ending?

Atm if I want to output with LF instead of CR (which is always),
then I have to always do this

String streamContents: [ :stream |
        (STON writer on: stream)
                prettyPrint: true;
                newLine: String lf;
                nextPut: data
].

I would be much happier if at least I could do this

STON lineEnding: String lf

(I could put the above in a StartupScript)

And then just use regular STON toStringPretty: data.


And I would be even happier if

STON class>>lineEnding
        ^ String lf

or

STON class>>lineEnding
        ^ OSPlatform current isWindows
                ifTrue: [ String crlf ]
                ifFalse: [ String lf ]

(Although always using LF by default might be preferable.)

To summarize, it would be great if we could:

* switch STON to LF _by default_
* allow users to easily switch to CR/CRLF if they need

Thanks,
Peter