Indeed. In GT, we introduced gtDisplayString which is meant to be used as a default brief string representation.
I think that we could promote this to displayString now that it is in the Pharo image. Cheers, Doru On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 12:03 PM, Sean P. DeNigris <s...@clipperadams.com> wrote: > Ben Coman wrote > > Now the followup question is whether its natural to expect something > > better from #asString > > I feel like #asString is such a general question that no answer would be > satisfying. What string representation should be returned? 'file://'? > '/path/to'? And what to do with memory file systems? It's been mentioned a > few times on the list that we should all be more disciplined in sending > e.g. > #displayString vs. #printString instead of #asString. The more I hear that > argument, the more sense it makes to me. > > > > ----- > Cheers, > Sean > -- > View this message in context: > http://forum.world.st/Why-aFileReference-asString-aFileReference-fullName-is-false-tp4810690p4810889.html > Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > -- www.tudorgirba.com "Every thing has its own flow"
