2014-05-13 2:41 GMT+02:00 Nicolas Cellier <
[email protected]>:

>
> 2014-05-08 18:29 GMT+02:00 Sean P. DeNigris <[email protected]>:
>
> Sven Van Caekenberghe-2 wrote
>> > The why is the result not 'Helloworld' ? or 'Hellworldo' ? Why does the
>> $o
>> > appear twice ?
>>
>> Good point.
>>
>> Please take a moment to:
>> 1. go to Ulysses
>> 2. follow the account creation link
>> 3. create an account on fogbugz
>> 4. log in
>> 5. create an issue report with:
>>   a. the vm version
>>   b. the image version
>>   c. your platform
>>   d. your social security number
>>   e. mother's maiden name
>>   f. name of first pet
>>   g. and, a reproducible way to cause the error
>> 6. (optional, but preferable) followed up by a slice with tests
>>   a. re-log-in to fogbugz
>>   b. go back to the issue page because the fogbugz login page probably
>> didn't redirect you to the issue
>>   c. add whoever is assigned as another person to notify because they will
>> paradoxically not be included by default
>> 7. (if 6) add class comments to classes that you didn't modify - and
>> possibly have never heard of - to make the monkey happy
>> 8. Weigh in on whether Pharo is or is not "Smalltalk" AND/OR whether a
>> tomato is a fruit or a vegetable
>> 9. Cross fingers and wait (but not as long as in Squeak)
>> 10. Try to remember what you were doing before you fell down the rabbit
>> hole
>> 11. Check email for VPRI's final STEPS report while waiting
>>
>> IN CASE OF EMERGENCY: insert beer between or during any other step OR
>> remember that we (meaning the Smalltalk, Smalltalk-inspired,
>> Smalltalk-channelled, Smalltalk-related, and/or Dynabook-related
>> identified
>> persons and possibly spouses and probably children under 17.5) still have
>> it
>> far better than the rest of the programming world
>>
>> ;-P (hopefully obviously)
>>
>>
>>
> Oh, but wait, I opened some bug reports once upon a time...
> I just rediscovered http://bugs.squeak.org/view.php?id=5707 which links
> to http://bugs.squeak.org/view.php?id=7194
> Not my fault if a forked happened ;)
>
> To continue around this very same example, every one knows that this
> should fail:
>     'hello' copyReplaceFrom: 3/2 to: 5/2 with: 'world'.
> Indeed, only integers should be used as indices!
>
> It should fail equally whether the argument is wide or not as you can see:
>     'hello' copyReplaceFrom: 3/2 to: 5/2 with: 'world' asWideString.
> Well yes, maybe non integer indices could be used, but Character>>negative
> is not understood
>
> It should fail equally whether the receiver is wide or not as you can see:
>     'hello' asWideString copyReplaceFrom: 3/2 to: 5/2 with: 'world'
> asWideString.
>
> A good lesson: tricky hacks like this always come with a price:
>     index isNumber
>         ifTrue: [^self at: index asInteger]
>         ifFalse: [self errorNonIntegerIndex]
>
> The sooner failure, the better failure ;)
>
>
Ah, finally a better illustration of what you obtain when you mix the bugs:

'hello' asWideString copyReplaceFrom: 11/2 to: 1/2 with: 'world'


>> -----
>> Cheers,
>> Sean
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>>
>>
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