Re: [Pharo-dev] Abotu FileReference objects as autoevaluating ones

2016-08-20 Thread Sean P. DeNigris
Richard Sargent wrote > In many Smalltalk implementations, there are (at least) three behaviours > for this kind of thing: #storeString, #printString, and #displayString. I > would argue against conflating them. +1. There was a reason we added the "File @" prefix (although I don't remember the

Re: [Pharo-dev] Abotu FileReference objects as autoevaluating ones

2016-08-19 Thread Richard Sargent
stepharo wrote > about > https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/18956/FileReference-printString-should-be-auto-evaluable > > > 'tmp/foo.txt' asFileReference > > > File @ tmp/foo.txt > > and it would be much much better to get back > 'tmp/foo.txt' asFileReference > > So that we can get > {

[Pharo-dev] Abotu FileReference objects as autoevaluating ones

2016-08-18 Thread stepharo
about https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/18956/FileReference-printString-should-be-auto-evaluable 'tmp/foo.txt' asFileReference > File @ tmp/foo.txt and it would be much much better to get back 'tmp/foo.txt' asFileReference So that we can get { 'tmp/foo.txt' asFileReference } > {