[ANSI-Smalltalk] Dates & Times

[Andres Valloud]

At least re: FFIs, nothing precludes us from implementing something in
a cross platform manner.  When it passes the test of time and is
sufficiently adopted, then we can say it's standard --- not because we
design something here and then give it to everybody else to implement,
but rather because it is a reflection of what actually happens.

Of course, it's easier said than done, but I'd go that way.

Andres.


On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 4:01 AM, Paolo Bonzini <bonzini at gnu.org> wrote:
> Steve Wart wrote:
>> There are a few more I can think of that don't seem to be on the list
>>
>> Primitives/Foreign Function Interfaces - this is something that GIlad
>> was quite critical about in Smalltalk.
>> Namespaces
>> Packaging
>
> Unfortunately, all three either seem to be causing lots of flame wars
> (though this is not the Squeak ML...), or are too
> wide/implementation-dependent/complicated to attack them soon.
>
> If I had time to write STEPs, I'd focus on expanding the standard library.
>
> Paolo
>
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