2017-11-09 22:03 GMT+01:00 Stephane Ducasse <[email protected]>:
> >>
> >
> > Then should not we replace STON based class definition with actual
> smalltalk
> > based definition? Tonel could parse class definition in similar way like
> it
> > parses methods.
>
> Probably not :) but one of this day we will change the class
> definition in Pharo adn we do not really want to impact tonel.
> For me tonel is a storage format and it is ok like that.
> Using Strings will solve the glitches.
>
> Stef
>
> But why accepting to depend on syntax of method body?
Especially in a language where you can define parserClass/compilerClass?
Maybe it would have possible to prepend each line with a space at write
time, and allways put end delimitor in first column / separated lines
[
^self
]
Then at read time, just scan line by line, remove first space if present,
stop when first column is ].
It's not super nice if you have string literals spanning multiple lines,
but it's syntax agnostic and futureproof, while still human
readable/writeable.
