Which of these should be in 3.8?



6502PointRectBasicNew-md -- Marcus Denker -- 2 December 2004
makes creation methods of Point and Rectangle use basicNew instead of 
new, thus
saving a call to initialize."

6503DelCompareTiming -- Marcus Denker -- 2 December 2004
removes #compareTiming form Symbol and Multisymbol:
Subject:		[BUG]Symbol>compareTiming
Author:		Tim Rowledge
Date Posted: 27 June 2003
Archive ID: 10815
Comments:	What on earth is this method doing in Symbol?  It has nothing 
to do with
Symbol and if it has any value at all ought to be pulled out and put in
the benchmarks package.

6504PrintShowingDecimalPlacesTest-dtl -- David T. Lewis -- 26 November 
2004
A unit test for Number>>printShowingDecimalPlaces:
This will fail for ''10 printShowingDecimalPlaces: 20'' due to missing
range check in Utilities class>>floatPrecisionForDecimalPlaces:
A fix is provided in a separate change set."

6505removeLF-md -- Marcus Denker -- 24 November 2004
The code run in the postscript is from 
SystemDictionary>>removeAllLineFeeds but
it does not beep nor ask if there''s a single LF (it just replaces this 
with CR, too)
This will change over 500 Methods"

6506PrintShowingDecimalPlacesFix-dtl -- David T. Lewis -- 26 November 
2004
Adds a range check for Utilities>>floatPrcisionForDecimalPlaces: and
a default implementation that works when the parameter is out of range.
Implementation note:
I used #caseOf:otherwise: to implement this. The result is about 25% 
slower
than the original unchecked method. I got very slightly faster 
performance
by writing it with a bunch of #ifTrue: lines, but I think the caseOf 
approach
is slightly less ugly.
All other implementations that I tried (including #at:ifAbsent:, and 
#on:do)
were significantly slower, so I settled on #caseOf:otherwise: for 
clarity and
reasonable speed."