Sept. 16, 2010
6:14 a.m.
Why is that the following 2 expressions work #(1 2 3 4 5 6) asByteArray replaceFrom: 1 to: 3 with: 'abc'. 'abcdef' replaceFrom: 1 to: 3 with: #(70 71 72) asByteArray. while the next 2 don't (#(70 71 72) asByteArray) at: 1 put: $a; yourself. 'abcdef' at: 1 put: 75; yourself. and there exists 'abcdef' byteAt: 1 put: 75; yourself. but there is no (#(70 71 72) asByteArray) charAt: 1 put: $a; yourself. Is the implicit conversion in #replaceFrom:to:with: by design ? And why is there no equivalent single operation ? Sven PS: I ran into this trying to deal with the concept of a 'bivalent' stream, one that can be read/written both byte and char based, some streams like SocketStream support this a little bit, but not really.