Re: [Help-smalltalk] Some changes to 2.2b

[J Pfersich]

At 08:13 AM 10/27/2006 +0900, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> J Pfersich wrote:
> > Here are a few changes for gst. Some are bug fixes, some are additions 
> > that I've been using. The fixes are in CharArray.st and VFS.st. The VFS 
> > bug is the createDir creation of the directory with permissions of 777. I 
> > think that world writable directories are a bad idea.
> Wrong, the OS should take into account the umask shouldn't it? 0x777 means 
> "all bits not set in the umask", not world writable.
> > VFS.st and File.st have changes made to the isFile method and other 
> > additions I've been using for a while now. I didn't include an isPipe in 
> > File, although it might be useful
> Okay.
> > In the Character Array class, the isNumeric method probably should be in 
> > a "testing" category instead of the "conversion" category. Also, it 
> > should probably be set up to handle fractions and floats with exponents, too.
> You're probably right.

Do you want me to take a shot at it?

> Paolo