I don't like so much compatibility packages because people will not update 
their code and expect the compatibility package to always work.
Why not just use what Marcus did for deprecations? Create a rule to transform 
ANSI Smalltalk to Pharo "magicly'?

Le 3 sept. 2015 à 22:44, Gabriel Cotelli a écrit :

> 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.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> 
> 
> 

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