> Am 10.05.2018 um 21:42 schrieb Sven Van Caekenberghe <[email protected]>: > > Hi, > > I propose the following: > > https://pharo.manuscript.com/f/cases/21870/Fix-Base64-madness-for-good > https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/1331 > > This is a much needed cleanup, IMHO. It is a breaking change however, since > it changes the signature (return type) of an existing method. > > #base64Decoded used to wrongly return a String, while that should be a > ByteArray since Base64 encoding is a way to encode bytes as ASCII text, hence > decoding it should give you back the original bytes. > Please do. It is obviously the right move. The times where strings contained bytes and it makes sense is over for a long time.
Norbert
