>> Update 5569variableDefinitions, recently added to Squeak 3.7a, turns 
>> out to have broken Class>>addInstVarName:, which had relied on the 
>> presence of the extra trailing space in the 
>> variables-definition-string
> Gulp. A trailing space is/was crucial? I _really_ don't like the sound
> of that.

Why do you think the space is crucial? What I did with this fix was 
basically simplifying and unifying the code creating all those variable-
declaration-strings and at the same time I removed that ugly space at 
the end, that I'm disliking since a long time.

While reading the Smalltalk-80 report I noticed that the space comes 
from that time and what is worse, it isn't even consistently used there, 
e.g. the template to create a new class hasn't got it. I think Squeak 
should go forward and not stay with old Smalltalk-80 style forever: I 
would actually even prefer to replace the strings with an array, I've 
never understood why there is a string used to declare variables:

	Object subclass: #NameOfSubclass
		instanceVariableNames: #(ivar1 ivar2)
		classVariableNames: #(CVar1 CVar2)
		poolDictionaries: #()
		category: 'Category'

Cheers,
Lukas

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