On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 3:28 PM, Frank Shearar <frank.shearar@gmail.com> wrote:

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> It is indeed strange behavior, but I think we inherited that from squeak.

No, Squeak has (since 2005) had still another behaviour:

';;;;' subStrings: ';'
'1;2;3' subStrings: ';' #('1' '2' '3')

(Note the ';' rather than $;, because Squeak's version takes a String
of separators.)

frank

Yes, but it still has the odd behavior:

';;;;' subStrings: ';' => $( )

'1;2;;3' subStrings: ';' => #('1' '2' '3')

And the separators don't have to be strings - they can be any collection of characters.

Chris