> On 26.11.2014, at 17:32, Ben Coman <b...@openinworld.com> wrote: > > Yuriy Tymchuk wrote: >> Hi everyone! >> There is a Lint rule that suggests to use stream instead of strings >> concatenation. What is the most common way, to create a string this way, >> because the only thing I can come up with is: >> String streamContents: [ :stream | >> stream >> nextPutAll: 'Hello'; >> nextPut: $ ; >> nextPutAll: 'World’] >> But I’m not sure if it is the preferred solution. >> Cheers >> Uko > > This is typical advise, but previous discussion found it to be not > necessarily true. > > https://www.mail-archive.com/pharo-dev@lists.pharo.org/msg08162.html >
Very good advice, thanks Ben! > Perhaps the rule should be ammended/deleted. Maybe a metric can be derived from Sven’s observations, e.g. “don’t apply if the strings are constants” etc. I don’t think the rule should be deleted because in the general case it’s important to understand that streams can be more efficient. > cheers -ben > >
