personally, i prefer a strict-typing behavior when using arithmetics. for that reason, i prefer seeing error in
someString + 4 or 4 + someString but not automagical conversion. On 6 September 2011 13:57, Camillo Bruni <[email protected]> wrote: > We still have a lot of awkward methods on String for doing math: > > String >> #* arg > ^ arg adaptToString: self andSend: #* > > Who is relying on them? I would like to deprecate them all :D > I guess some binary math selectors might make sense > > String >> #* count > ^ self class new: self size * count streamContents: [ :stream| > count timesRepeat: [ stream << self ]]. > > cami > > -- Best regards, Igor Stasenko.
