[Seaside-dev] ByteArray>>seasideString

[Philippe Marschall]

2009/4/23 Michael Lucas-Smith <mlucas-smith at cincom.com>:
>
>>  It feels like I have been trying to explaing the difference
>> between bytearray to strings for the last three years without success.
>> So yes I would like to do this but don't think it's practical.
>>
>
> I think it'd be useful to push harder on this issue. VisualWorks certainly
> had a messy heritage in this regard, but is consistent now.. encoded,
> they're bytes, decoded, they're strings.
>
> If Seaside-Platform set the rules, would everybody fix up their codecs?

It's not the codecs, it's all the client code. You wouldn't expect the
troubles involved in switching one argument from a Symbol to a String
and that's nothing compared to the universe of pain this is going to
cause.

Cheers
Philippe