Sven, For tODE I am very interested having something with this kind of potential ... shipping "real" ST objects back and forth between Amber and Pharo or GemStone has some real appeal... So Goran, the STON format looks somewhat similar to Tirade ... what would Tirade look like for the same data set? Dale ----- Original Message ----- | From: "Dale Henrichs" <dhenrich@vmware.com> | To: Pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr | Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2012 10:22:36 AM | Subject: Re: [Pharo-project] STON (was Re: SimpleLiteralArray Spec) | | Sven, | | I looked at your sample document in the pdf: | | TestDomainObject { | #created : DateAndTime [ '2012-02-14T16:40:15+01:00' ], | #modified : DateAndTime [ '2012-02-14T16:40:18+01:00' ], | #integer : 39581, | #float : 73.84789359463944, | #description : 'This is a test', | #color : #green, | #tags : [ | #two, | #beta, | #medium | ], | #bytes : ByteArray [ 'afabfdf61d030f43eb67960c0ae9f39f' ], | #boolean : false | } | | And this is very readable (to me)... not as many '[]' as I inferred | from reading the tests:). | | I take back my YAML comparison ... this has the nice flavor of | Smalltalk ... | | Dale | | ----- Original Message ----- | | From: "Sven Van Caekenberghe" <sven@beta9.be> | | To: Pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr | | Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2012 10:06:22 AM | | Subject: [Pharo-project] STON (was Re: SimpleLiteralArray Spec) | | | | Norbert, Dale, et al, | | | | | | On 24 Apr 2012, at 18:43, Norbert Hartl wrote: | | | | > What is STON and STON-object syntax? | | | | Arhh, it is not yet finished, I did it for myself, not for trying | | to | | convince the world, since that it too hard anyway. | | | | This is the work-in-progress paper: | | | | | | | | | | The code lives here: http://ss3.gemstone.com/ss/STON | | | | It is a slight variation of JSON, adding some Smalltalk concepts, | | as | | well as a solution to the class problem. | | | | But again, I am not trying to convince anyone to use this, I did it | | as a proof of concept for myself, and I kind of like it. | | | | On the other hand, JSON is so ubiquitous that I wonder a bit, why | | bother ? | | | | Sven | | | | | | -- | | Sven Van Caekenberghe | | http://stfx.eu | | Smalltalk is the Red Pill | | | | | | | | | | |