[Seaside-dev] Issue with subStrings:

[John O'Keefe]

Open mouth, insert foot!!!

> subStrings: is available on VA Smalltalk.  AFAIK it conforms to the ANSI
spec.

subStrings: in VA Smalltalk takes a single character as an argument, not a
collection of characters.  I guess I'll double-check before I open my mouth
next time :-)

I also checked Dolphin and their implementation matches VA Smalltalk -- it
takes a single charactor parameter.

However, having discovered this anomoly, I will change our implementation to
take either a single character or a collection of characters to maintain our
claim of conforming to the ANSI spec.

As far as running the ANSI Test Suite, I don't think such a thing really
exists.  The one created as a CampSmalltalk project is incomplete and has no
home or owner (the SourceForge project that claims to hold the code actually
has only the base SUnit code) -- the only way I know to get it is to contact
someone who got it from someone else ....  The version I have only contains
stubs for the subStrings: tests.

John O'Keefe [|], Principal Smalltalk Architect, Instantiations Inc.


On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 2:51 AM, Gerhard Obermann <obi068 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi!
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> I am currently using the method "subStrings:" in Seaside 2.9.
> This seems to be a little problem,
> because the semantics on Squeak and GemStone are different.
> And AFAIK its not available on other platforms (VW) by default.
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> Which are the options:
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> - Change Squeak or GemStone semantics
>    => Probably not !
> - Define new Seaside specific subStrings: method
> - Rewrite those methods to avoid using subStrings:
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> Any other ideas
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> Cheers
> Gerhard
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