+1 in the context of Pharo, no doubt, Fuel is THE solution Squeak has to support legacy ReferenceStream a bit longer, but even in Squeak I would inquire about Fuel 2013/1/23 Marcus Denker <marcus.denker@inria.fr>:
On Jan 23, 2013, at 10:21 AM, "Edgar J. De Cleene" <edgardec2005@gmail.com> wrote:
File in the attached in Pharo 1.4, Squeak or Cuis and you have a way of save / load simple Objects into the three forks.
And if you speak Spanish, we have http://ar.groups.yahoo.com/group/squeakRos/
Join us and ask any question.
Edgar
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Keep in mind that ReferenceStream is deprecated in 2.0
The nice thing about Fuel is:
-> Very much faster -> output more compact -> you can store *any* kind of objects. (even the one you are sure you can't, like the Context (stack frame))
Marcus