On Friday 12 March 2010 11:29:20 pm Eliot Miranda wrote: > I'm sure Im opening an old topic but anyway, as I was riding the train > to work today I saw a shop called "Audio Images" and it struck me how > overloaded the term image is, and how poor a term for the contents of the > image file Smalltalk image is. What's in the image is a snapshot of... > almost the entire system (minus platform-specific virtual machine and > possibly minus sources). So Smalltalk system file would be a far better > term and stsys a more unique file extension (and according to Wikipedia STS > is unused too). If ever we change the image format, we should also change its name and extension. The first time people hear the term, they think of 'picture'. I suppose the term image is a Mac hangover :-).
I prefer "bit bag" (*.bag) or "bag of bits" (*.bob). BTW, sts is already taken (Microsoft Visual C) Subbu _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
