Hi everyone,

Thanks for your help.

I hacked up a small and extremely simple webserver based on the socketServer
code. The
transporter code goes in applications/. I'm not sure if I can attach it to an
email so I've put
it up on the web at:
http://russell-allen.com/self/downloads/files/webserver.self

File in with: bootstrap read: 'webserver' From: 'applications'
Setup default with: webserver registerServlet: (webserver exampleServlets
fileServlet copy)
At: ''.
Start with: webserver start
Go to: http://localhost:8080/

I'd appreciate it if anyone has a change to try to file it in and possibly
comment on how
'selfish' it is in style.

Some notes and comments I made while writing it:

- although I worked out how to write out a module from the materials, I had more
trouble
reading it in again. I eventually found a note on Jecel's site with the magic
incantation
(bootstrap read: 'webserver' From: 'applications'); I couldn't find a suitable
way to do it
from morphic.
- I was pleasantly suprised how nice Self morphic was for *writing* code (the
word isn't
quite right - it felt more like construction than writing)
- On the other hand, the inspectors were hard to *read* code with. My continual
question
was "What methods does a string understand anyway?" and "How do I open a file?";
it was
hard to answer this without opening millions of inspectors all over my nice
nebraskan
plain (plane?).
- I kept on writing stuff like "method: a = (|| a print )" and getting an error
because I
needed a space between the bars.
- syntax differences from Smalltalk I haven't yet internalised: the use of
capital letters in
message names, block notation; I kept writing: "[:k | k print]", slots between
the bars; I
kept writing "| var1 var2 | code"
- it was most frustrating that the inspectors for arrays/lists/dictionaries
showed the
normal slots and not a more useful view of what was actually in the collection

Cheers,

Russell

PS: I've just noticed that the Transporter has declared my code to be (c) Sun
and Stanford,
which it obviously isn't. Is there a way to change this?