Hi Stefan & friends.

On 2/12/00, Stefan Aust wrote:
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"I always wondered why Transcript show: only accepts strings as arguments."
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While I'm not opposed to bullet-proofing Transcript show:, I do think that
your proposed code change is, ahem, a bit heavy handed (sorry if I'm less
than polite, it's _quite_ late on the US east coast :-).

In particular, I would recommend avoiding the isKindOf: call.  I have been
told in the past that it is a bit expensive.  And, of course, polymorphism
makes the asString method very inexpensive (String>>asString simply returns
self).

Thus, something like this would probably be cleaner (& quicker):

TranscriptStream>>
show: aString  "TextCollector compatibility"
    self nextPutAll: aString asString.
    self endEntry 

Cheers & good evening!

---==> Chris