[Seaside-dev] ByteArray>>seasideString

[Philippe Marschall]

2009/4/23 Michael Lucas-Smith <mlucas-smith at cincom.com>:
> 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 :)

You convince enough people (server vendors, developers, ...) that it's
worth it and I'll happily do it.

Cheers
Philippe