> ANSI is a standard and there are cases where it is wrong (commitee decisions > = compromise)
I agree, however changing the behavior of #next means that we will not be able to develop Seaside on Pharo. Seaside takes great advantage that Squeak is ANSI compatible. Lukas > > On Jun 5, 2008, at 3:27 PM, Bill Schwab wrote: > > > > Lukas, > > > > I have blind copied someone who can comment, or not at his discretion, > > on Cincom's view on this; he never said he was commenting off the > > record, but I try to err toward assuming that. I got the distinct sense > > that they are contemplating a change of some type and are also > > struggling with backward compatibility. > > > > You are correct about ANSI; I was shocked to see what they did. > > Without reservation, I assert the standard is wrong. Exception handling > > was created to allow the widespread elimination of precisely the > > condition that arises when #next reads off the end of a stream. I can > > always (and probably will if we do not fix this) deprecate #next and > > #next: in my own work, but that still leaves inconsistencies between and > > within dialects. > > > > Bill > > > > > > > > > > > > Wilhelm K. Schwab, Ph.D. > > University of Florida > > Department of Anesthesiology > > PO Box 100254 > > Gainesville, FL 32610-0254 > > > > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Tel: (352) 846-1285 > > FAX: (352) 392-7029 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6/5/2008 7:18 AM >>> > > > > > > > > > Yes, but it is not consistent, and they are apparently not happy > > > > > > > > > with it. > > > > Why? Can you give any pointers? > > > > > > > Object Arts' solution is consistent both with itself and with yoga of > > > > > structured exception handling. However, at this point, it appears that > > you do not want to make the change, so I will stop pressing. > > > > As far as I see this is inconsistent with the ANSI standard. > > > > Cheers, > > Lukas > > > > -- > > Lukas Renggli > > http://www.lukas-renggli.ch > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Pharo-project mailing list > > [email protected] > > > http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Pharo-project mailing list > > [email protected] > > > http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Pharo-project mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project > -- Lukas Renggli http://www.lukas-renggli.ch _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
