Stef, In keeping with print==developer, display==user, the idea of the developer representation is to quote the text so that it looks like the literal syntax. At least that is what I have always thought it was about. Does that help?
Bill Wilhelm K. Schwab, Ph.D. University of Florida Department of Anesthesiology PO Box 100254 Gainesville, FL 32610-0254 Email: [email protected] Tel: (352) 273-6785 FAX: (352) 392-7029 >>> [email protected] 1/16/2009 2:57:57 PM >>> vw has also the printOn: versus displayString distinction. But here the point to have ' inside the string (ie the printString of the contained element ) does not make too much sense to me. stef On Jan 16, 2009, at 8:44 PM, Bill Schwab wrote: > Stef, > > I suspect that Object Arts would favor #printOn:delimiter:. They > would > also probably have a #displayOn:delimeter: method. Their approach is > that one 'displays' for users and 'prints' for developers; they > generally don't much like #as* methods, with the exception of true > conversion methods (such as #asOrderedCollection, etc.). > #displayOn: is > used my morphic, which will cause me some hassles some time soon. > > FWIW. > > Bill > > > > > Wilhelm K. Schwab, Ph.D. > University of Florida > Department of Anesthesiology > PO Box 100254 > Gainesville, FL 32610-0254 > > Email: [email protected] > Tel: (352) 273-6785 > FAX: (352) 392-7029 > > >>>> [email protected] 1/16/2009 12:55:53 PM >>> > Hi all > > I would like to have your point of view on the following: > on the class collection there are two methods > > asStringOn: aStream delimiter: delimString > asStringOn: aStream delimiter: delimString last: lastDelimString > > > printOn: aStream delimiter: delimString > printOn: aStream delimiter: delimString last: lastDelimString > > which are nearly doing the same. > I suggest to remove the printOn: version > > since it prints: > '1'', ''2'' & ''3'. > while asString > '1, 2 & 3' > > I do not see any use of the printOn version and there is no sender > (except tests that I will remove :). > > > Stef > > > _______________________________________________ > Pharo-project mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project > > _______________________________________________ > Pharo-project mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project > _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
