Yes it should, it was a bit shorter, but rationale was told in Collection-nice.518 http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2013-May/170832.html
2013/7/18 Chris Muller asqueaker@gmail.com
The "why" of any change like this should be documented by its MCVersionInfo.
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 10:56 PM, tim Rowledge tim@rowledge.org wrote:
On 17-07-2013, at 7:18 PM, Levente Uzonyi leves@elte.hu wrote:
On Wed, 17 Jul 2013, tim Rowledge wrote:
Not long ago Character>to: was changed to return a String instead of
an Array. That broke ObjectsTool>alphabeticTabs
Either we need to fix alphabeticTabs to re-convert the String to a
collection, or rescind the change to Character>to:. It would help if the rationale for that change were known.
The fix is easy, just replace the line causing the bug with this:
tabLabels := ($a to: $z) collect: [:ch | ch asString] as:OrderedCollection.
I can't commit now, so please do it.
I had already sent a fix like that to Frank - since he's tearing up the
system right now and I'm a bit occupied with Scratch modernisation - but I'm not convinced it is better than making $a to: $z go back to returning an Array. I *know* a String is kinda-sorta an array of characters - but I want to be assured that the change didn't bugger up any other methods as a side-effect. Why was it done? What efforts to ensure it didn't screw things were made?
tim
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