On 24 Apr 2012, at 11:40, stephane ducasse wrote:

> Hi guys
>
> We should develop a simple Literal Array parser that is dialect independant
> so that we can avoid using JSON for meta data. So I will start to develop. I will start to write some tests and do it test first.
>
> Gofer new
> � �repository: 'http://ss3.gemstone.com/ss/SimpleLiteralArrayParser';
> � �package: 'SimpleLiteralArrayParser';
> � �load
>
> Now I still wonder what do we do about floats. May be the situation changed but Squeak and VW floats were not the same.
>
> Stef

Good idea!

I was already thinking about doing that ;-)

But shouldn't there be a specification first ?

For primitives, have a look at JSON, don't make it more complicated than that.