HOLLER!

Did you both hear that? :)

Actually, I don't use that because I didn't know it was there. But it
looks very useful!

While I agree that streamlining is a good thing, I don't like losing
functionality. Particularly with String.

Cheers,
Bijan.



On Tue, 23 May 2000, Scott Wallace wrote:

> Andres,
> 
> Actually, the two methods have different functions:
> 
> "lineCorrespondingToIndex: n" gives you the line that contains the 
> nth character of the string.
> 
> whereas
> 
> "lineNumber: n"  gives you the nth line.
> 
> 
> For example,
> 
> 'Fred
> the
> Bear'  lineCorrespondingToIndex: 3       is 'Fred'
> 
> whereas
> 
> 'Fred
> the
> Bear'  lineNumber: 3                     is 'Bear'.
> 
> Both functions had their uses in the early days of Squeak (both 
> methods date back more than 4 years!) but, as you say, the former is 
> no longer used, so I agree that it could and should be removed. 
> Unless we hear someone holler.
> 
>   -- Scott
> 
> 
> At 12:57 PM -0700 5/23/00, Andres Valloud wrote:
> >Hi.
> >
> >There is String>>lineCorrespondingToIndex: and also there is
> >String>>lineNumber:.
> >
> >The comments in the methods suggest that the second is an improvement of
> >the first. The code looks much better in the second method, too.
> >
> >I found no senders of the first (just a reference in the method finder),
> >but I found senders of the second.
> >
> >I think the first method should be removed, and that the reference in
> >the method finder should be deleted. Shall we?
> >
> >Andres.
> 
>