[ENH] CharacterTimes-rsb

Richard A. O'Keefe ok at cs.otago.ac.nz
Tue Jun 22 03:39:30 UTC 2004


rsbohn at rocketmail.com wrote:
	A pythonism: $e * 4 -> 'eeee'."
	
Urk.  We normally expect * to be symmetric.  Is this?

We already have

    (String new: 4) atAllPut: $e; yourself

using only familiar methods, or even better,

    String new: 4 withAll: $e

using an existing method designed for this purpose.  I think it's better
to use #new:withAll: .




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