[Seaside] A new critical blog discussing Seaside

Yoshiki Ohshima yoshiki at vpri.org
Fri Apr 17 22:31:07 UTC 2009


At Fri, 17 Apr 2009 22:48:34 +0200,
stephane ducasse wrote:
> 
> 4-Why don't you ask publicly why a string was used?
> When I learned Smalltalk 12 years ago I read a book telling that  
> strings are cheap to create
> slow to compare, while symbols where the inverse so if the web server  
> returns a string
> it may be more efficient to compare a string than to convert it into a  
> symbol and compare it.

  And somebody should tell him that selecting _n and pressing
Cmd-shift-e would get the list of methods with it.

-- Yoshiki



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