Dear all,

thanks for the many suggestions. I didn't had time to test all import/export ways yet. But for now, I can report on two:

1) NGFileOuter
Unfortunately It raised several MNUs in my image. I'll investigate them later.

2) FileOut30 (VW Contributed)
I was able to file out the code except for the package definition. Replacing {category: ''} in the class definitions with {package: 'Transducers'} fixed that. However, methods that extend existing classes did not end up in the Transducers package. Is there a similar easy change to the file-out making that happen? Also I'd like to add the package comment if that's possible.

Most things appear to work as far as I can see. Two exceptions:
1) Random is a subclass of Stream in VW and in Pharo it is not. Hence, I'll have to copy some methods from Stream to Random.
2) I used #beImmutable in VW but I couldn't yet figure out how to make objects immutable in Pharo.

However, until the tests are ported, I cannot guarantee. Porting the test suite will be another beast, since I rely on the excellent mocking/stubbing library DoubleAgents by Randy Coulman. I am not sure how I will handle that. In general, I think it would be really worth the effort to be ported to Pharo, too. DoubleAgents is pretty powerful and produces easy to read and understand mocking/stubbing code. Personally, I prefer it clearly, e.g., over Mocketry (no offence intended!).

Attached you'll find the file-out that I loaded into Pharo. The issues above are not addressed yet. However, the following example works:

| scale sides count collect experiment random samples coin flip |
scale := [:x | (x * 2 + 1) floor] map.
sides := #(heads tails) replace.
count := 1000 take.
collect := [:bag :c | bag add: c; yourself].
experiment := (scale * sides * count) transform: collect.
random := #(0.1 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.7 0.8 0.9).

samples := random
�� �� �� �� �� �� �� reduce: experiment
�� �� �� �� �� �� �� init: Bag new.

samples := random
�� �� �� �� �� �� �� transduce: scale * sides * count
�� �� �� �� �� �� �� reduce: collect
�� �� �� �� �� �� �� init: Bag new.

coin := sides <~ scale <~ random.
flip := Bag <~ count.

samples := flip <~ coin.


Best, Steffen

Am .06.2017, 08:16 Uhr, schrieb Stephane Ducasse <stepharo.self@gmail.com>:

There is a package for that NGFileOuter or something like that on cincom
store.
We used it for mobydic code.

On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 6:35 PM, Alexandre Bergel <alexandre.bergel@me.com>
wrote:

If I remember correctly, there is a parcel in VisualWorks to export a file
out (Squeak format).

@Milton, can you give a hand to Steffen?

Alexandre
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On May 31, 2017, at 10:32 AM, Steffen M��rcker <merkste@web.de> wrote:

Thanks for the encouraging response! First question: Which is the
recommended (friction free) way to exchange code between VW and Pharo?

Cheers!
Steffen

Am .05.2017, 16:22 Uhr, schrieb Alexandre Bergel <alexandre.bergel@me.com
>:

I second Sven. This is very exciting!

Let us know when you have something ready to be tested.

Alexandre