On 2014-02-26, at 03:53, Hernán Morales Durand <hernan.mora...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > 2014-02-25 8:49 GMT-03:00 p...@highoctane.be <p...@highoctane.be>: > Yes but... in Pharo strings are collections and a ton of things can be done > with collections already. > Other languages have more "basic" strings and are cutting them in all ways > possible but not as collections. > > things like detect, inject etc are not really in the repertoire of other > languages. Okay, there are chop, split, ... but these are pretty basic things. > > Why not have a test suite with a test for demonstrating how to do these > things with the platform we do have? > > e.g. testChomp, testSplit, ...all put in a Tests-Strings-RubyStyle or > Tests-Strings-PythonStyle packages? > > And like there are Seaside-Pharo-XXX packages, why not a String-Ruby-XXXX > thing ? > > > Yes, that is a really good idea. indeed, we can do it in two steps: 1. create the ruby / pythonic compatibility packages (blindly ignoring any pharo conventions) 2. see which methods (if any) actually make sense to steal
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