J Pfersich wrote: > For the Character, asString gives me the representation I'm looking for, > whereas the Float only has printString available. Shouldn't there be > a asString method available for Floats?
No, and here's why. st> #($p $o $n $g) asString printNl! 'pong' st> #($p $o $n $g) printNl! ($p $o $n $g ) In other words, the "printable representation" (what #printOn: puts on its stream argument) isn't the same as "an equivalent object of class String" (what #asString answers). Languages that rely on a single method convert-to-string protocol blur this important distinction. -- Stephen Compall http://scompall.nocandysw.com/blog _______________________________________________ help-smalltalk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-smalltalk
