Re: [Help-smalltalk] Iliad - asResponse implementation

[Paolo Bonzini]

Stefan Schmiedl wrote:
> While looking around in Iliad source code, I noticed that
> Object>>asResponse is implemented using Object>>printString.
>
> Dolphin Smalltalk makes a -- quite useful -- distinction
> between
>
>   printString   - what the developer wants to see
>   displayString - what the user gets to see

GNU Smalltalk also has the same distinction, as you surely know:

 'abc' printString = '''abc'''   (prints as 'abc')
 'abc' displayString = 'abc'     (prints as abc without quotes)

> Also, I'm seeing that Iliad.Response supports the "usual"
> streaming methods #nextPut: and #nextPutAll. What about
>
> Object extend [
>     asResponse [
>         | response |
>         <category: 'converting'>
>         response := Iliad.Response ok.
>         self respondOn: response.
>         ^response
>     ]
>     respondOn: aResponse [
>         <category: 'responding'>
>         self displayOn: aResponse.
>     ]
> ]

Yes, looks nice.

Paolo