Hi guys chris mueller proposed in squeak to have Exception>>messageText "Return an exception's message text." + ^ messageText ifNil: [ String empty ]! - - ^messageText! - Added Array class>>#empty and String class>>#empty to provide applications with canonicalized instances of these oft-used objects; since they are embedded as literals in the CompiledMethod. =============== Diff against Collections-ar.304 =============== Item was added: + ----- Method: Array class>>empty (in category 'instance creation') ----- + empty + "A canonicalized empty Array instance." + ^ #()! Item was added: + ----- Method: String class>>empty (in category 'instance creation') ----- + empty + "A canonicalized empty String instance." + ^ ''! Item was removed: - ----- Method: String>>asDefaultDecodedString (in category 'converting') ----- - asDefaultDecodedString - - ^ self http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=1961