[Squeakland] Re: [BUG]Text getFirstCharacter

[Scott Wallace]

Yes, this is clearly a bug, and Karl's fix is correct.

Cheers,

  -- Scott

At 10:16 PM +0200 9/21/03, Karl Ramberg wrote:
>I made a L-system parser and had it read characters one by one from
>a text (TextMorph) using the getFirstCharacter tile, and assigning them
>to a variable:
>myMorph's text: text getFirstCharacter.
>This works fine but when I use the variable in a test it will fail
>because it has
>actually gotten a character and not a string.
>myMorph's text = 'G' -> false
>myMorph's text = $G  -> true.
>
>I would think this is a bug in TextMorph>>getFirstCharacter which should read:
>
>TextMorph>>getFirstCharacter
>	"obtain the first character from the receiver if it is empty, return a 
>	black dot"
>	| aString |
>	^ (aString _ text string) isEmpty
>		ifTrue: ['•']
>		ifFalse: [aString first asString]
>                                    ^^^^^^^^
>
>Karl