[ANSI-Smalltalk] Sockets

[giorgio ferraris]

Hi,  Bruce,

Moving between  VSE, VW, VA and Dolphin, Socket has always been one of my
problems.

I'm surely with your thinking.
Ciao

Giorgio


BTW: Marry Christmas to everyone. Hope on a more peaceful next year



On Dec 22, 2007 11:12 AM, Bruce Badger <bwbadger at gmail.com> wrote:

> I would very much like to see sockets included in the next version of
> the Smalltalk standard and suggest that we go for as direct a mapping
> as possible to the POSIX specification.  This would lead us to have a
> POSIX socket class and exceptions for the various errors that can come
> up with a socket (e.g. AGAIN).  As far as possible I think there
> should be a direct mapping between the ideas and terminology expressed
> in POSIX and in the Smalltalk implementations.
>
> A comprehensive implementation of POSIX sockets would open the way for
> portable abstractions that could sit on top.
>
> The POSIX socket classes should not get in the way of existing socket
> implementations.  Current socket classes could continue to work as
> they do now, or via the new POSIX classes since current Smalltalk
> socket code must ultimately work in terms of POSIX anyway.
>
> So, broadly, how does this sound?
>
> Thanks,
>    Bruce
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