<div dir="ltr">There are a few more I can think of that don't seem to be on the list<br><br>Primitives/Foreign Function Interfaces - this is something that GIlad was quite critical about in Smalltalk.<br>Namespaces<br>
Packaging<br><br>Standards in these areas could be quite beneficial. It seems to me that things that can be implemented at the library level are maybe less important than things that inhibit sharing code between Smalltalk implementations.<br>
<br>Bruce, thanks for posting that link. I couldn't find it in the archives and was embarrassed to ask for it :)<br><br>Steve<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 12:23 AM, Bruce Badger <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bwbadger@gmail.com">bwbadger@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Richard,<br>
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We don't seem to have a Step addressing Time as yet:<br>
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<a href="http://smalltalk.gnu.org/step/steps-smalltalk-enhancement-proposals" target="_blank">http://smalltalk.gnu.org/step/steps-smalltalk-enhancement-proposals</a><br>
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Would you be willing to lead the creation of one?<br>
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All the best,<br>
Bruce<br>
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2008/9/5 Richard A. O'Keefe <<a href="mailto:ok@cs.otago.ac.nz">ok@cs.otago.ac.nz</a>>:<br>
> What I'm really concerned about is things like the<br>
> DateAndTime class, where the ANSI specification<br>
> appears to be unimplementable. There are two<br>
> conflicting requirements: we must be able to do<br>
> arithmetic on these timestamps, and they must be<br>
> in UTC. This requires the ability to predict leap<br>
> seconds for hundreds of years in advance...<br>
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