2015-02-26 22:37 GMT+01:00 stepharo <stepharo@free.fr>:

Why do we have to put everything in string?

why
�� Zip string: 'hello'
�� Zip bzip string: 'hello'
�� Zip gzip string: 'hello'

would not be more modular?
Zip could be a factory and have subclasses.

This is not because can extend classes that we should think about nicer way.

I like for example the DateFormatter strategy related to Date from other languages because I can specify the way I want it.

Stef

Because somehow you can easily pipe unary messages.

�� ^'hello' zipped base64Encoded

versus:

�� (Encoder base64 byteArray: (Zip gzip string: 'hello')).

I much much prefer to read/maintain 1st version

The 2nd one looks like overkill verbiage to me.

Le 25/2/15 16:52, Juraj Kubelka a ��crit :

25. 2. 2015 v 12:28, Sven Van Caekenberghe <sven@stfx.eu>:

This seems related to adding 'easy of use' methods to String.

There are many different compression schemes (zip, bzip, bzip2, gzip, ...), are we going to add them all ?

How much do we want to couple different parts of the system ?

I prefer to couple the compression schemes with String and ByteArray. Methods like #zipped, #unzipped are not that simple and it is not well apparent how to use that compression scheme.

Cheers,
Juraj

On 25 Feb 2015, at 16:23, Juraj Kubelka <juraj.kubelka@gmail.com> wrote:

Can I add ByteArray>>#zipped and #unzipped methods the way it is for String? I want to compress bytes before sending through internet, for example.

Do you agree?
Thanks,
Juraj