On Feb 27, 2013, at 11:19 AM, Martin Dias <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I discovered this protocol in String hierarchy. Are you familiar with it?
>
> The method comment of #fromPacked: is:
> "Convert from a longinteger to a String of length 4."
>
> The only sender in Pharo 2.0 is MethodFinder. For WideString, it does not
> work.
>
> In examples:
>
> ByteString fromPacked: 'text' asPacked. ---> 'text'
> ByteString fromPacked: 'martin' asPacked. ---> 'rtin'
> WideString fromPacked: ('text' asWideString asPacked). ---> error
>
>
>
> WideString>>asPacked can be easily fixed adding an explicit return to
> the calculation (it's now implicitly returning self).
>
> But... it only encodes one letter:
>
> WideString fromPacked: 'martin' asWideString asPacked ---> 'n'
>
>
> I checked that in Squeak 4.3 there are not senders too.
>
> So... Should we fix the WideString implementation, or directly remove
> this protocol?
>
If something is only in the MethodFinder referenced it shows that it
is very very old.
(We really need to clean up the MethodFinder, it references a lot of
crap).
remove.
Marcus
