I've second Sven here. In case anybody wants the old method put it in some ANSICompatibility package to ease porting packages from ANSI-compliant Smalltalks.
On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 4:54 PM, Sven Van Caekenberghe <[email protected]> wrote: > We went through a lot of effort/pain to move to substring, I think for > good reasons. > > > On 03 Sep 2015, at 21:31, Dimitris Chloupis <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > why not both ? > > Because the proper English spelling is with lowercase > > https://duckduckgo.com/?q=define%3A+substring&ia=definition > > > On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 9:45 PM stepharo <[email protected]> wrote: > > *) It appears that Pharo is removing subString: in favor of > > substring:. The ANSI standard defines subString:. > > > > I was not aware of it. In fact ANSI is bad and totally incomplete > > (for example we studies strings and this is a mess and totally > > incomplete). > > Now we should probably add it. I will send the mail to the > > mailing-list and let people decide. > > > > > > > > > > >
