nicolas cellier wrote:
> James Foster a écrit :
>> Actually, in this case I'd suggest that we change the standard! In 
>> each of
>> the six Smalltalk dialects I have available (Dolphin, GemStone, Squeak,
>> VisualAge, VisualSmalltalk, VisualWorks) the following returns true:
>>
>>     ((ReadStream on: 'abc') peekFor: $a; next) = $b.
>>
> 
> Also add stx (Smalltalk-X) and gst (GNU Smalltalk) to the list.

I can't help but wonder how ANSI ended up with that definition if 
basically every Smalltalk in existence does it differently. Just one of 
those "design by committee" decisions? Or perhaps there is a good reason 
for it that just never made the light of the day? Mostly, the standards 
committee seemed to have gone with existing notions if there wide 
agreement on them - peekFor: seems to be one of those cases where the 
standard went wildly differently and I really wonder why.

Cheers,
   - Andreas