Göran, I did not know that you had a Smalltalk literal array parser as part of Tirade. I wil keep that in mind when the JSON issues bubbles up again ... Thanks, Dale ----- Original Message ----- | From: "Göran Krampe" <goran@krampe.se> | To: Pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr | Sent: Sunday, October 21, 2012 1:25:03 PM | Subject: Re: [Pharo-project] Parsing Smalltalk Array/Object Literals | | On 10/21/2012 08:23 PM, Dale Henrichs wrote: | > Sven, | > | > I'm not asking about the parser for the literal array but the | > parser to parse the literal array itself, but I think you've | > answered my question (indirectly:) | > | > The original reason for going with JSON 9 months ago was that since | > GemStone does not have a accessible parser for Smalltalk syntax, I | > need to choose an export format for "objects" that included a | > portable parser for the syntax ... | > | > Presumably your implementation assumes the existence of a Smalltalk | > literal parser (I think that is what I was able to glean from | > Igor's mails) in which case I won't be able to use it (even if I | > thought it was usable from a readability standpoint:). | > | > Dale | | I am sounding like a broken record - but Tirade includes a hand coded | object literal parser which is fast. All of Tirade is 500 lines. But | yes, it does reuse (IIRC) the parser for literal numbers, so you | would | need to implement/port that one... ;) | | regards, Göran | | |