Andreas Raab a écrit :
> nicolas cellier wrote:
>> James Foster a écrit :
>>> Actually, in this case I'd suggest that we change the standard! In 
>>> each of
>>> the six Smalltalk dialects I have available (Dolphin, GemStone, Squeak,
>>> VisualAge, VisualSmalltalk, VisualWorks) the following returns true:
>>>
>>>     ((ReadStream on: 'abc') peekFor: $a; next) = $b.
>>>
>>
>> Also add stx (Smalltalk-X) and gst (GNU Smalltalk) to the list.
> 
> I can't help but wonder how ANSI ended up with that definition if 
> basically every Smalltalk in existence does it differently. Just one of 
> those "design by committee" decisions? Or perhaps there is a good reason 
> for it that just never made the light of the day? Mostly, the standards 
> committee seemed to have gone with existing notions if there wide 
> agreement on them - peekFor: seems to be one of those cases where the 
> standard went wildly differently and I really wonder why.
> 
> Cheers,
>   - Andreas
> 
> 

Who knows...
Let us kindly consider this is just an error that only deserve an errata 
like James suggested

Nicolas