[Q] Ask on String manipulation

David Stes stes at mundivia.es
Tue Apr 28 18:15:35 UTC 1998


glenn wrote:
>
> As you suggest, this is used a lot in error handlers and other places,
> especially in the face of internationalization.
> 
> I don't think it's a huge project to create this functionality in Squeak,
> and while you can't steal the VW code, I think we'd benefit from having
> compatible syntax, so I'd encourage you or some other Squeaker to check out
> the VW description.

It's usually used like in [self error:"No object at offset %i !",offset] 
in Objective C.

Talking about error handling, I've renamed our -ifException: to be like
Squeak's -ifError:  to be compatible.





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