+1

One of our developers recently complained of #asInteger being removed from ByteArray for instance...

Regards, Gary

----- Original Message ----- From: "Brent Pinkney" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, August 23, 2010 8:00 AM
Subject: Re: [Pharo-project] 'foo' asTime


I would really like to have the approach proposed by K. Beck on conversion
methods. Conversion methods for API compatible objects. Of course it will
lead to less compact program (URL readFrom: 'http://' instead of 'http://'
url) but avoids a lot of code in String (of course class extensions limit
the plague).

Hi, please reconsider this. There is just no way (Duration seconds: 3) is
better than '3 seconds'.

This smacks of working for the computer instead of the other way around.

Brent

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