Hi Smalltalkers,

I'm writing a version of Smalltalk for the Java Virtual Machine.
It will go from Smalltalk source all the way to bytecode and allow
calling Java classes/libaries and
for them to call your Smalltalk classes.

You can read more about it here:www.jamesladdcode.comor follow it onhttp://twitter.com/smalltalkjvm

Smalltalk source will be in files that represent the class, so Object
will be in Object.st

What I am wondering is, how would you feel if the chunk format of the
file was removed?
ie: No ! or !!

So

!Arc methodsFor: 'accessing'!

center: aPoint radius: anInteger

        "The receiver is defined by a point at the center and a radius. The

        quadrant is not reset."

        center _ aPoint.

        radius _ anInteger! !

Becomes:

"Arc methodsFor: 'accessing'"
center: aPoint radius: anInteger

        "The receiver is defined by a point at the center and a radius. The

        quadrant is not reset."

        center _ aPoint.

        radius _ anInteger

Why are you using underscore instead of := ?

On Fri, 2 Oct 2009 14:15:21 -0700 (PDT)
SmalltalkJVM also hopes to be compatible with GNU.

jamesl <ladd.ja... at (no spam) gmail.com> wrote:
Smalltalk source will be in files that represent the class, so Object
will be in Object.st

What I am wondering is, how would you feel if the chunk format of the
file was removed?

Please take a look at GNU smalltalk, which also reads code from
files. Maybe you can use gst's syntax, too.

       http://smalltalk.gnu.org

s.

Smalltalk source will be in files that represent the class, so Object
will be in Object.st

What I am wondering is, how would you feel if the chunk format of the
file was removed?