On 03.07.2014, at 13:07, Frank Shearar <frank.shearar at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 3 July 2014 11:58, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de> wrote:
>> 
>> And while we're on that topic, this is just wrong:
>> 
>> 'foo' asWideString asByteArray
>> => #[0 0 0 102 0 0 0 111 0 0 0 111]
> 
> Why is that wrong? Because #asByteArray doesn't make sense without
> specifying an encoding?

That, and it exposes endianness which is not a good idea either. Besides, this is what asByteArray is supposed to do:

asByteArray
	"Answer a ByteArray whose elements are the elements of the receiver."

... but "0" is not an element of that string in any sensible interpretation. I would expect

	'foo' asWideString asByteArray = 'foo' asByteArray

(and asByteArray should raise an exception for larger values)

Encoding the string would make sense, but is something else entirely, yes.

>> in particular since
>> 
>> #(1 2 3) asWordArray asByteArray
>> =>  #[1 2 3]

This is sensible, and does raise the exception.

- Bert -



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