At Fri, 07 Nov 2008 21:08:22 +0100,
nicolas cellier wrote:
> 
> Yoshiki Ohshima a écrit :
> > At Tue, 04 Nov 2008 01:44:39 +0100,
> > nicolas cellier wrote:
> >> Well, I guess every one use with base = 1...
> > 
> >   The "base" was of course set differently if you browse the users.
> > And if you browse the users, you can simply tell that it is
> > exclusively used for the multilingualization part of the system, and I
> > didn't really thought about printing a big table...
> > 
> > -- Yoshiki
> > 
> > 
> 
> Ah, the two instances in my 3.10.2 occidental image are 1-based...
> 	SparseLargeTable allInstances collect: [:e | e base].
> 	-> #(1 1)

  Your image probably doesn't contain any of the CJK-ish langauges, I
would guess.

> The problem is more with accessing than printing.
> I'm curious, how do you use base ~= 1 ?

  Take a look for the references in the OLPC Etoys image.

> Anyway, maybe it won't do what you think...
> because I have other griefs with creation messages ignoring their 
> arguments :)
> 
> new: size chunkSize: chunkSize arrayClass: aClass base: b
> 
> 	^self new: size chunkSize: chunkSize arrayClass: Array base: 1 
> defaultValue: nil.

  That is funny.

  The use I know was always with the "fully qualified" version in the
image.  (Thank you for spotting!)

-- Yoshiki