Morph selectors size -> 924

Richard A. O'Keefe ok at atlas.otago.ac.nz
Thu Jun 21 23:01:06 UTC 2001


Stephane Ducasse <ducasse at iam.unibe.ch> wrote:
	At the end you end with a system where you can send asHtml to aString.
	Yeah really cool!!! but by doing that you are linked the HTML parser with
	the String core kernel class. And if you do not need Html for your
	application then you are in trouble.

While I too like classes that are small enough to understand,
this specific claim is untrue.  String>>asHtml uses only Collection
methods.  The HtmlEntities table it refers to lives in String.

There are quite a few bad things about this method, but linkage to
the HTML parser is not one of them.





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