Bill Schwab writes:
Hello,
I would like to tell you all the incredible things I did to get SIF going - truth is, it loaded and just worked. The only gripe I have is that the Pharo browsers are displaying a large number of LF or other non-printable characters as boxes in the Pharo browsers. I have seen Squeak do this many times, and either just ignored it or deleted them, as my need to view the code and tolerance level allowed. It will get old with the amount of code I plan to move.
How would YOU fix this? Is it a SIF problem (dumping out things it should not from Dolphin), a SIF problem (not supressing characters as they are loaded in Pharo), or something missing in the browsers that is expected to be fixed in Pharo?
It's a line ending problem most likely. Squeak uses Mac style line endings. If there's only a few I'd delete the characters, if there's more I might try to automate it. In general automation would be a little tricky because you'd want to ignore any carriage returns in strings that you want to keep. If you know the source well enough to know that there aren't any then just write a script possibly in Squeak to remove them. It might be worthwhile trying to automatically reformat your code. That's likely to get rid of them as the RB formatter runs off the parse tree and ignores whitespace. Bryce