PharoExtras / SmalltalkCompatibility

Provide a common holding of compatibility packages for other Smalltalk dialects, e.g. ANSI, Squeak, SmalltalkX, Dolphin, VisualWorks, VisualAge, to reduce the need for everyone to reinvent that wheel themselves.

Pharo's design philosophy is evolve beyond Smalltalk - unconstrained by adherence to old static standards like ANSI Smalltalk - yet it helps to provide a bridge to help address the Chicken And Egg problem, and reduce Barriers To Entry. This repository was created following on from pharo-dev mail-list discussions subString versus substring and ANSICompatibility

A first step would be to find and import some ANSI tests:

• .../src/test/ansi/ansi-compatibility/.
• Camp Smalltalk ANSI Stream protocol tests (or is this the same and we should reference it from this location?)

Then migrate some existing shim layers:

• ANSIfication for Squeak by Richard Harmon and Alain Fischer.

Community contributions are encouraged.