[Seaside-dev] ByteArray>>seasideString

[Michael Lucas-Smith]

Philippe Marschall wrote:
> 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.
>
>   
Oh well... I have a work around, it's just a shame is all :)