I've added a comment to the bug tracker. I suggest to keep the bug marked as WontFix or Invalid.
Lukas 2009/10/19 Gary Chambers <[email protected]>: > 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 > -- Lukas Renggli http://www.lukas-renggli.ch _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
