[squeak-dev] support of various line ends in trunk

stephan at stack.nl stephan at stack.nl
Tue Nov 17 10:41:56 UTC 2009


Juan wrote:
> Showing all in the same way is misleading. Different Strings should  
> look different in the editor!

Why should they? No system (old mac, unix, dos) has the correct
ASCII behaviour and no user expects them to. Squeak is multi-platform
and has its own internal conventions. Conversion should always default
towards the internal conventions, with the possibility to override that
behaviour. Default write-out should be to platform standard, eliminating
multi-convention line ends. If the user wants something different, she
knows enough to override the defaults.

Stephan Eggermont




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