Indeed. In GT, we introduced gtDisplayString which is meant to be used as a default brief string representation. I think that we could promote this to displayString now that it is in the Pharo image. Cheers, Doru On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 12:03 PM, Sean P. DeNigris <sean@clipperadams.com> wrote:
Ben Coman wrote
Now the followup question is whether its natural to expect something better from #asString
I feel like #asString is such a general question that no answer would be satisfying. What string representation should be returned? 'file://'? '/path/to'? And what to do with memory file systems? It's been mentioned a few times on the list that we should all be more disciplined in sending e.g. #displayString vs. #printString instead of #asString. The more I hear that argument, the more sense it makes to me.
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