[squeak-dev] The Trunk: KernelTests-nice.244.mcz

tim Rowledge tim at rowledge.org
Sun Feb 24 06:25:39 UTC 2013


On 23-02-2013, at 5:34 PM, Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 4:08 PM, Bob Arning <arning315 at comcast.net> wrote:
>> I tried it and did not see a problem. That is an empty string, isn't it?
> 
> Yes, and you're getting away with it because the WriteStream
> implementation doesn't use become: to grow strings.  But back in the
> day it did and would have resulted in a non-zero string.


If Eliot's explanation doesn't convince you, just consider how ugly an expression it is. Let's have "WriteStream onNewString". Much more readable. Clearly expressed intent.

tim
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