[ANSI-Smalltalk] Welcome

[Andres Valloud]

Plain text with well delimited scoped contexts would seem to work as far as
I can see...

Thanks,
Andres.

On Nov 14, 2007 7:41 AM, Bruce Badger <bwbadger at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 14/11/2007, Ralph Johnson <johnson at cs.uiuc.edu> wrote:
> > i suggest that we develop an XML format for representing the standard
>
> I had imagined that we would initially use the wiki as the repository
> for the text of the standard.
>
> The wiki would give us a publicly readable vehicle for the standard
> text, and would also capture who changed what when.  I had further
> imagined that the wiki would be changed only in the light of
> discussion on this list (following the principle of least surprise,
> and all that).
>
> XML is a structured format which certainly holds promise for this kind
> of thing.  I would ask, though, whether use of XML is something which
> is orthogonal to the standards process (something we can trend towards
> as an agreed way of using it defined) rather than something that we
> should wait for before proceeding?  I bet we could spend lots of time
> deciding how do use XML before we got onto doing any useful work with
> it.
>
> Also, sticking with the existing textual format (for all it's faults)
> will make it easier for the first iteration of the standards process
> to deliver something of value because the current format has been
> shown to be acceptable to the ANSI overlords.
>
> In short: even if XML is the right long term thing to use, would
> requiring it up front be more of a parking brake than an accelerator?
>
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