2009/7/23 Dave Mason <dmason@mason-rose.ca>:
I have been wondering about ways to speed up character-set conversions, and related I/O as mentioned in the recent email about MultiByteFileStream. Â However this change might break parts of the ANSI Smalltalk hierarchy - particularly around String.
So my question is, how important is ANSI compatibility? Â Squeak? GNU Smalltalk? Â VW? VA?
On a related question, how common is it to subclass String? Â Would it be a mess if it were its own little hierarchy of classes?
My opinion, that we should follow the standards as much as possible. This is a good to have a layer , common for all dialects, so developers could port their software on different dialects without much hacking.
../Dave
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