[Seaside-dev] Issue with subStrings:

[James Foster]

On Oct 31, 2008, at 5:08 AM, John O'Keefe wrote:

> Open mouth, insert foot!!!
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> > subStrings: is available on VA Smalltalk.  AFAIK it conforms to  
> the ANSI spec.
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> subStrings: in VA Smalltalk takes a single character as an argument,  
> not a collection of characters.  I guess I'll double-check before I  
> open my mouth next time :-)
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> I also checked Dolphin and their implementation matches VA Smalltalk  
> -- it takes a single charactor parameter.
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> However, having discovered this anomoly, I will change our  
> implementation to take either a single character or a collection of  
> characters to maintain our claim of conforming to the ANSI spec.

Likewise, I expect we could modify GemStone/S to confirm to the ANSI  
spec.

James Foster
GemStone Systems, Inc.

> As far as running the ANSI Test Suite, I don't think such a thing  
> really exists.  The one created as a CampSmalltalk project is  
> incomplete and has no home or owner (the SourceForge project that  
> claims to hold the code actually has only the base SUnit code) --  
> the only way I know to get it is to contact someone who got it from  
> someone else ....  The version I have only contains stubs for the  
> subStrings: tests.
>
> John O'Keefe [|], Principal Smalltalk Architect, Instantiations Inc.
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> On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 2:51 AM, Gerhard Obermann <obi068 at gmail.com>  
> wrote:
> Hi!
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> I am currently using the method "subStrings:" in Seaside 2.9.
> This seems to be a little problem,
> because the semantics on Squeak and GemStone are different.
> And AFAIK its not available on other platforms (VW) by default.
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> Which are the options:
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> - Change Squeak or GemStone semantics
>    => Probably not !
> - Define new Seaside specific subStrings: method
> - Rewrite those methods to avoid using subStrings:
> ...
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> Any other ideas
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> Cheers
> Gerhard
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