I was going to slip this example into the welcome help, 1 printString [debugIt]
and I'm confronted by SmallInteger>>printString printString "Highly optimized version for base 10 and that we know it is a SmallInteger." | integer next result len | self = 0 ifTrue: [^'0']. self < 0 ifTrue: [^'-', self negated printString]. len := self decimalDigitLength. result := String new: len. integer := self. len to: 1 by: -1 do: [:i | next := integer // 10. result byteAt: i put: 48 + (integer - (next * 10)). integer := next]. ^result and I gather from other discussions this should(?) belong in SmallInteger>>printOn: Or is there a large benefit to avoiding the #printStringLimitedTo: machinery ? cheers -ben
