The "why" of any change like this should be documented by its MCVersionInfo.

On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 10:56 PM, tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:
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> On 17-07-2013, at 7:18 PM, Levente Uzonyi <leves at elte.hu> wrote:
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>> On Wed, 17 Jul 2013, tim Rowledge wrote:
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>>> Not long ago Character>to: was changed to return a String instead of an Array. That broke ObjectsTool>alphabeticTabs
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>>> Either we need to fix alphabeticTabs to re-convert the String to a collection, or rescind the change to Character>to:. It would help if the rationale for that change were known.
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>> The fix is easy, just replace the line causing the bug with this:
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>>       tabLabels := ($a to: $z) collect: [:ch | ch asString] as: OrderedCollection.
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>> I can't commit now, so please do it.
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> I had already sent a fix like that to Frank - since he's tearing up the system right now and I'm a bit occupied with Scratch modernisation - but I'm not convinced it is better than making $a to: $z go back to returning an Array. I *know* a String is kinda-sorta an array of characters - but I want to be assured that the change didn't bugger up any other methods as a side-effect. Why was it done? What efforts to ensure it didn't screw things were made?
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