I was going to slip this example into the welcome help, ��

1 printString [debugIt]

and I'm confronted by SmallInteger>>printString

printString

"Highly optimized version for base 10

and that we know it is a SmallInteger."

| integer next result len |

self = 0 ifTrue: [^'0'].

self < 0 ifTrue: [^'-', self negated printString].

len := self decimalDigitLength.

result := String new: len.

integer := self.

len to: 1 by: -1 do: [:i |

next := integer // 10.

result byteAt: i put: 48 + (integer - (next * 10)).

integer := next].

^result

and I gather from other discussions this should(?) belong in SmallInteger>>printOn:

Or is there a large benefit to avoiding the #printStringLimitedTo: ��machinery ?

cheers -ben