On Aug 23, 2010, at 12:21 PM, Gary Chambers wrote:

> He was porting his stuff from Squeak 3.9 
> 
> 3107 apparently.
> 
> c.f.
>   #(12 35) asByteArray asInteger asByteArray


This is what I tried 
        #(12 35) asByteArray asInteger on my old 3.9 7067 final image and it 
barks. 
Then a nice explicit loops should make it too.

Stef

> 
> Unfortunately heavily used when doing low-level stuff with external devices 
> socket data etc.
> (let us not get into endianess either though ;-) )
> 
> Regards, Gary
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stéphane Ducasse" 
> <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Monday, August 23, 2010 11:01 AM
> Subject: Re: [Pharo-project] 'foo' asTime
> 
> 
>> #[12 35] asInteger
>> is not in 1.0, 1.1, and 1.2
>> It does not work in squeak trunk either
>> did not work in 3.9 either.
>> So I'm puzzled.
>> 
>> Now everybody can create his own personal package with the extensions they 
>> like.
>> 
>> Stef
>> 
>> On Aug 23, 2010, at 11:52 AM, Gary Chambers wrote:
>> 
>>> +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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