Then there are so many string classes now! Still, a good idea, got well bitten by the problem twenty years ago (Smalltalk V/DOS)... took a good day to discover the problem!
Regards, Gary ----- Original Message ----- From: "Niko Schwarz" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, October 19, 2009 4:48 PM Subject: [Pharo-project] Immutable strings > Hello list! > > I would like to propose the compiler spit out immutable strings as > string literals. I'd like to do this by making a subclass of classical > strings which throws error messages when it is attempted to change the > string. > > The beginning of this discussion happened in the bug tracker, please > see http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=1332. > > I completely agree with Toon: String literals should be immutable. > This can be done with almost no speed impact and would only break code > that quite honestly deserves to break. > > My 2 cents. > > Regards, > > Niko > > _______________________________________________ > 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
