[Seaside-dev] Character class >> #codePoint: vs. #value:

[Michael Lucas-Smith]

Philippe Marschall wrote:
> Hi
>
> Issue 388 [1] states that Character class >> #value: should be
> replaced with  #codePoint: because the later is ANSI standard. I see
> two problems with this. The first is that our codebase currently uses
> #value:. I wouldn't mind changing this though. The bigger problem is
> that in Squeak the arguments for  #codePoint: have to be between 0 and
> 255.
>
>   
And a third point - currently Strings are used to hold "bytes" as well 
as characters when encoding/decoding. If ByteArray were used instead of 
String then codePoint/codePoint: on Character in String makes a lot more 
sense - despite the limitation in Squeak.

Just my 2c.

Michael