Ok, so I will open an issue to nuke it!
3.0 ?
On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 11:26 AM, Sven Van Caekenberghe <s...@stfx.eu> wrote:
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> On 27 Feb 2013, at 11:19, Martin Dias <tinchod...@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Hi
>>
>> I discovered this protocol in String hierarchy. Are you familiar with it?
>>
>> The method comment of #fromPacked: is:
>> "Convert from a longinteger to a String of length 4."
>>
>> The only sender in Pharo 2.0 is MethodFinder. For WideString, it does not
>> work.
>>
>> In examples:
>>
>> ByteString fromPacked: 'text' asPacked. ---> 'text'
>> ByteString fromPacked: 'martin' asPacked. ---> 'rtin'
>> WideString fromPacked: ('text' asWideString asPacked). ---> error
>>
>>
>>
>> WideString>>asPacked can be easily fixed adding an explicit return to
>> the calculation (it's now implicitly returning self).
>>
>> But... it only encodes one letter:
>>
>> WideString fromPacked: 'martin' asWideString asPacked ---> 'n'
>>
>>
>> I checked that in Squeak 4.3 there are not senders too.
>>
>> So... Should we fix the WideString implementation, or directly remove
>> this protocol?
>>
>> Martin
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> It might have something to do with pre Mac OS X days, Mac creator/type codes.
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> Unless this follows some open standard with a spec, I would say nuke it.
>
> Doing something like this without specifying encoding strikes me as dangerous.
>
> Sven
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