[squeak-dev] String>>match: broken

Herbert König herbertkoenig at gmx.net
Sat Jan 15 11:09:53 UTC 2011


Hello Janko,

JM> Because this new match behavior (not allowing two '**') is new only in
JM> Squeak but allowed in all other Smalltalks, I propose to reconsider this
JM> decision and better retract back to old behavior.

it's not that easy.

The change was intended to be a real fix. The comment in the 1998
version already states '**' not being allowed. And with the old
version:

'http*' match: 'httpgaga' returns true while
'http**' match: 'httpgaga' returns false.

See Mantis http://bugs.squeak.org/view.php?id=6841



-- 
Best regards,

Herbert




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