[Cuis-dev] Transcript - Enter code (13)

[David T. Lewis]

On Wed, Sep 13, 2023 at 10:01:13PM +0000, Thiago da S. Lino via Cuis-dev wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> What's the expected result for the following script? Cuis[1] and Squeak[2]
> 
> Transcript
> ?? ?? ?????? show: 'a';
> ?? ???? ???? show: 13 asCharacter;
> ???? ???????? show: 'b'.
> 
> 
> 
> [1] https://pasteboard.co/WjwZOk5gVIgL.png (cuis)
> [2] https://pasteboard.co/EOifrkw8qNIp.png (squeak)
> 

Neither result seems unexpected to me. If I am interested in
understanding how ASCII control characters worked many years ago,
then I would say that the Cuis result is clear and informative.
If was more interested in having my transcript work in unsurprising
ways when I show ASCII control characters, then I might prefer
the Squeak result.

I appreciate the Cuis approach because it helps me to understand
that an ASCII carriage return control character is not a universal
convention for record or line terminator, and it reminds me that,
over the years, different computing platforms have used different
conventions for representing the concepts of "end of line" or
"record delimiter".

Dave