Seaside-Squeak-Core String>>#trimBlanks method inhibits porting

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What steps will reproduce the problem?

1. Inspect:  (Character cr asString, '    abc') trimBlanks 

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

On Squeak and Dolphin, I see 'abc'; on VW and VA Smalltalk I see '
   abc' (a CR, three spaces, and 3 letters).

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?

Seaside-Core pmm.141
Seaside-Squeak-Core lr.44
Seaside-Test pmm.112 

Running on WinXP

Please provide any additional information below.

Since the #trimBlanks method actually removes all separators, it seems 
badly named at best.

Both VW and VA Smalltalk implement String>>#trimBlanks to remove only 
spaces, not all separators.  Dolphin's #trimBlanks implementation matches 
Seaside-Squeak-Core; I don't know about GST or Gemstone.

VA Smalltalk has a similar method, #trimSeparators, to remove all 
separators; I have not found a similar method in other implementations.

I suggest changing the Seaside-Squeak-Core String>>#trimBlanks method (and 
references to it) to String>>#trimSeparators to more-correctly describe 
its function as well as aiding porting.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by wembley....@gmail.com on 6 May 2008 at 4:06