Escape strings for compiler

On Jul 26, 2010, at 10:09 AM, Norbert Hartl wrote:

Hi,

I tried to compile a method that returns a string.  Is there a method to escape a string in a way that the compiler treats it as a string and not as code?

If you want to return something that again can be evaluated as a string, you can use double quotes inside:

Compiler evaluate: ' '' evaluate me, I am a String '' '  

On Jul 26, 2010, at 10:56 AM, Marcus Denker wrote:

On Jul 26, 2010, at 10:38 AM, Norbert Hartl wrote:

On 26.07.2010, at 10:27, Marcus Denker wrote:

On Jul 26, 2010, at 10:09 AM, Norbert Hartl wrote:

Hi,

I tried to compile a method that returns a string.  Is there a method to escape a string in a way that the compiler treats it as a string and not as code?

If you want to return something that again can be evaluated as a string, you can use double quotes inside:

Compiler evaluate: ' '' evaluate me, I am a String '' '  

I want to compile a method

myString

^ 'arbitrary string'

So the problem is more of how would you do what you suggested having the string: evaluate me, I'm a String ?

If you alreadu have a string and you want to print it in a way that they compiler can evaluate it back, you can just

use #printString on the string.

#storeString is even better... as it does not shorten very long strings ;-)