On Sun, 9 Sep 2001, Helge Horch wrote:

> At 18:46 07.09.2001 -0700, Robert Hirschfeld wrote:
> >"Change Set:            CharDigitValueEnh
> >Date:                   8 September 2001
> >Author:                 Robert Hirschfeld
> >
> >Allows the use of lowercase letters in Character>>digitValue as well."
>
> Hmmm.  I recall the thread from last year, starting with Bert's
> changeset in <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/squeak/message/11934>.
> I'll admit that the discussion that followed finally made the
> "uppercase only" scheme click for me, and it has ceased to be a
> recurring gotcha since.

Same for me. The uppercase-case-only digit scheme makes number parsing a
very simple syntactic problem (outweighting the expense of an uppercase
message send when reading case insensitive hex numbers).

-- Bert