>>> What would you say the right thing is? >> >> Well, intuitively I would say that converting an Array of Character >> instances (say 5 instances) using "asString" would give me a String of size >> 5. Also, "Character space asString" does NOT give me 'Character space' but >> actually ' '. > Maybe its just me, but I'd rather not have > SequenceableCollection >> asString mean "If I contain only elements which may > represent characters, return a string containing those, if not, return my > printString"
yes you are not the only one. Thanks I was thinking about that after my post :) >> Having a fallback on printString is of course fine, in Object. But... well, >> I haven't thought *deeply* on this, but a sequencable collection of >> Characters should IMHO be able to produce a String >> regards, Göran > > And it is, using either > collection as: String, or > String withAll: collection > In both cases you then explicitly specify that this collection will contain > only elements which can be converted to a string, rather than have a later > reader of the code have to question "hmmm, does the use of asString here mean > he'll be using the collections printString, or the string with its elements?" I'm curious about the senders of asString, especially to collection. Stef _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list Pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
