Which Ruby guru an Python guru is going to give it a shot? [I am a Tcl guy... hey, that's an everything is a string language... ] Oh well, I started something:
http://www.smalltalkhub.com/#!/~philippeback/StringTclShim So, who is taking StringRubyShim and StringPythonShim :-p ? Phil On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 5:09 PM, Camillo Bruni <[email protected]>wrote: > > On 2014-02-26, at 03:53, Hernán Morales Durand <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > > > > > 2014-02-25 8:49 GMT-03:00 [email protected] <[email protected]>: > > 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 >
