Re: [Pharo-users] About handling strings in streams with STON

Say you want to write out a Date creation expression, then the following (what you do) would not work:

Compiler evaluate: (String streamContents: [ :out | out << 'Date fromString: '. Date today printOn: out ]).

But the following does (as I did):

Compiler evaluate: (String streamContents: [ :out | out << 'Date fromString: '. out print: Date today printString ]).

You need to take the printed representation and turn it into a Smalltalk String literal. If you just put it there, all the characters will be there but the string will not be quoted, nor will embedded quotes be escaped properly.

Yes I thought about it. I was thinking that we are pretty low-level for template programming. May be RBrewritter is the way to go.