2017-11-09 0:52 GMT+01:00 Martin McClure <martin@hand2mouse.com>:
On 11/08/2017 01:15 PM, Sven Van Caekenberghe wrote:
What is the opinion of the original Tonel designers ?
Well, Esteban did the largest part of the work, but I guess I am *one* of the original designers, in that various design proposals were floated back and forth, starting with one of mine and ending with Tonel.
My intent is that Tonel, as a declarative cross-platform format, should use strings exclusively, never Symbols. I *think* I discussed this with Esteban during ESUG, and I *think* he agreed, so it seems likely that the current behavior with class definitions is unintentional.
Regards,
-Martin
Ah you remind me there's one thing I don't like in this format: Tonel must be aware of all possible syntax tricks in order to parse the method body... And that ain't easy
https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/20659/Tonel-parser-is-broken-by-literal-ar... I found that while accidentally reading the code due to https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/20652/Iceberg-branch-compare-bug