On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 5:44 PM, Guillermo Polito <guillermopolito@gmail.com> wrote:

I feel these pieces of code aren't really explicit in what they do

5 + 'hello'

5 + (1 to: 10)

5 + (1@5)

On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 5:42 PM, Guillermo Polito <guillermopolito@gmail.com> wrote:

Well Collection and Point understand that message too.

One step at a time, but an issue entry now so we don't forget about it.

http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=2858

On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 5:20 PM, Carla F. Griggio <carla.griggio@gmail.com> wrote:
What we've been discussing with Guille is that sometimes the 'type checking' (or actually, the conversion) is done, and sometimes not.

For example:

5 + true

true does not understand 'adaptToNumber:andSend:', so no magic conversion is done, but strings understand that message so we get things like:

5 + 'foo' = 5

This should be consistent regardless the type of the parameter.

Cheers,
Carla

On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 5:10 PM, Guillermo Polito <guillermopolito@gmail.com> wrote:

Do we reeeeeally want to do

5 + '4'

5 + 'hello'

?