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David Simmons

RFC: Creating a "STEP" Site

Hello all,

Personally, over the last couple of years, I have had numerous ad-hoc
discussions with various Smalltalk innovators and implementors regarding
standarizing and evolving smalltalk features [beyond (or perhaps in lieu of)
the ANSI X3J20 Smalltalk-98 work]. There are have been numerous posts
discussing what is or is not needed for Smalltalk.

I'm hereby raising "for community discussion" the idea of setting up a
Smalltalk site similar to that which Python currently has for its "PEP"
(Python Enhancement Proposals).

I suggest that the acronym "STEP" (Smalltalk Enhancement Proposals) be used.
A wiki facility such as used in the http://www.dolphinharbor.org or
http://wiki.cs.uiuc.edu. It would be "appropriate" for PR purposes if it was
set up at http://smalltalk.sourceforge.net/steps".

For references to PEP please review:

http://python.sourceforge.net/peps
and
http://python.sourceforge.net/peps/pep-0001.html.

--
-- Dave S. [ http://www.smallscript.net ]
Smalltalk for the AOS Platform and The Microsoft.NET Framework

Reinout Heeck

Re: RFC: Creating a "STEP" Site

David Simmons wrote:

>
>
> I'm hereby raising "for community discussion" the idea of setting up a
> Smalltalk site similar to that which Python currently has for its "PEP"
> (Python Enhancement Proposals).
>
> I suggest that the acronym "STEP" (Smalltalk Enhancement Proposals) be used.
> A wiki facility such as used in the http://www.dolphinharbor.org or
> http://wiki.cs.uiuc.edu. It would be "appropriate" for PR purposes if it was
> set up at http://smalltalk.sourceforge.net/steps".

It has been proposed a couple of times here to set up a wiki for
questions and suggestions regarding the standard, nothing happened until
now.

I would like to see such a site, and I prefer a wiki above sourceforge.

R
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Victor Goldberg

Re: Creating a "STEP" Site

In reply to this post by David Simmons

I think you'll find little oposition to the idea.
The question is: Who will do it?

Victor

"David Simmons" <[hidden email]> wrote in message
news:lkL67.242482$%[hidden email]...
> Hello all,
>
> Personally, over the last couple of years, I have had numerous ad-hoc
> discussions with various Smalltalk innovators and implementors regarding
> standarizing and evolving smalltalk features [beyond (or perhaps in lieu
of)
> the ANSI X3J20 Smalltalk-98 work]. There are have been numerous posts
> discussing what is or is not needed for Smalltalk.
>
> I'm hereby raising "for community discussion" the idea of setting up a
> Smalltalk site similar to that which Python currently has for its "PEP"
> (Python Enhancement Proposals).
>
> I suggest that the acronym "STEP" (Smalltalk Enhancement Proposals) be
used.
> A wiki facility such as used in the http://www.dolphinharbor.org or
> http://wiki.cs.uiuc.edu. It would be "appropriate" for PR purposes if it
was

> set up at http://smalltalk.sourceforge.net/steps".
>
> For references to PEP please review:
>
> http://python.sourceforge.net/peps
> and
> http://python.sourceforge.net/peps/pep-0001.html.
>
>
> --
> -- Dave S. [ http://www.smallscript.net ]
> Smalltalk for the AOS Platform and The Microsoft.NET Framework
>
>
>

Reinout Heeck

Re: Creating a "STEP" Site

Victor Goldberg wrote:
>
> I think you'll find little oposition to the idea.
> The question is: Who will do it?
>

If we want to host it on the uiuc wiki site Ralph Johnoson is the one to
ask.

IMO 'STep' is too narrow a name, I would like such a wiki also to host
clarifications/interpretations of the current standard, not just
proposals. And perhaps docu of de-facto 'standards'.

How about 'AnsiST' or 'SmalltalkStandards'?

Reinout
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> Victor
>
> "David Simmons" <[hidden email]> wrote in message
> news:lkL67.242482$%[hidden email]...
> > Hello all,
> >
> > Personally, over the last couple of years, I have had numerous ad-hoc
> > discussions with various Smalltalk innovators and implementors regarding
> > standarizing and evolving smalltalk features [beyond (or perhaps in lieu
> of)
> > the ANSI X3J20 Smalltalk-98 work]. There are have been numerous posts
> > discussing what is or is not needed for Smalltalk.
> >
> > I'm hereby raising "for community discussion" the idea of setting up a
> > Smalltalk site similar to that which Python currently has for its "PEP"
> > (Python Enhancement Proposals).
> >
> > I suggest that the acronym "STEP" (Smalltalk Enhancement Proposals) be
> used.
> > A wiki facility such as used in the http://www.dolphinharbor.org or
> > http://wiki.cs.uiuc.edu. It would be "appropriate" for PR purposes if it
> was
> > set up at http://smalltalk.sourceforge.net/steps".
> >
> > For references to PEP please review:
> >
> > http://python.sourceforge.net/peps
> > and
> > http://python.sourceforge.net/peps/pep-0001.html.
> >
> >
> > --
> > -- Dave S. [ http://www.smallscript.net ]
> > Smalltalk for the AOS Platform and The Microsoft.NET Framework
> >
> >
> >