2009/7/23 Dave Mason <[email protected]>: > I have been wondering about ways to speed up character-set > conversions, and related I/O as mentioned in the recent email about > MultiByteFileStream. However this change might break parts of the > ANSI Smalltalk hierarchy - particularly around String. > > So my question is, how important is ANSI compatibility? Squeak? GNU > Smalltalk? VW? VA? > > On a related question, how common is it to subclass String? Would it > be a mess if it were its own little hierarchy of classes? >
My opinion, that we should follow the standards as much as possible. This is a good to have a layer , common for all dialects, so developers could port their software on different dialects without much hacking. > ../Dave > > _______________________________________________ > Pharo-project mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project > -- Best regards, Igor Stasenko AKA sig. _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
