Well, not now. In Pharo 5 :) Doru
On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 12:18 PM, Tudor Girba <tu...@tudorgirba.com> wrote: > 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 <s...@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. >> >> >> >> ----- >> Cheers, >> Sean >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://forum.world.st/Why-aFileReference-asString-aFileReference-fullName-is-false-tp4810690p4810889.html >> Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> >> > > > -- > www.tudorgirba.com > > "Every thing has its own flow" > -- www.tudorgirba.com "Every thing has its own flow"
