Sept. 6, 2011
11:06 a.m.
personally, i prefer a strict-typing behavior when using arithmetics. for that reason, i prefer seeing error in someString + 4 or 4 + someString but not automagical conversion. On 6 September 2011 13:57, Camillo Bruni <camillo.bruni@inria.fr> wrote:
We still have a lot of awkward methods on String for doing math:
    String >> #* arg         ^ arg adaptToString: self andSend: #*
Who is relying on them? I would like to deprecate them all :D I guess some binary math selectors might make sense
    String >> #* count         ^ self class new: self size * count streamContents: [ :stream|             count timesRepeat: [ stream << self ]].
cami
-- Best regards, Igor Stasenko.