does somebody has the latest version of the standard because the  
version we have is a beta from 1993?
After indeed this is strange that with such a consensus they got that  
because on the other part they made a good job.

Stef

On 28 févr. 07, at 23:23, Andreas Raab wrote:

> 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
>
>