On Mon, 8 Nov 2010, stephane ducasse wrote:

Hi eliot

I was going over some changes and I noticed that in squeak

20 hex 16r41 $A hex '41'

in pharo we have hex that always returns 16rXX

$A hex '16r41'

20 hex '16r14'

Even if this is regular this is not really nice. In fact this ones should be fixed to return numbers and not strings. I do not understand why hex should return a string.

And how? Integer >> #hex would be ^self and Character >> #hex would be ^value ? Levente

and in pharo printStringHex the XX part only

$A printStringHex '41'

20 printStringHex '14'

Here this is a string since the name says it.

In VW there is asHexString which is nice too.

So could we agree on that and get a system that is nicer and more consistent.

Stef