On Aug 27, 2007, at 10:00 PM, Jason Johnson wrote:

On 8/27/07, Fabio Filasieno <fabio.filasieno@gmail.com> wrote:

 cascade operator.  You don't like it, but it still provides
something that requires temporary variables to duplicate without it.

ahaaaa ..... I didn't get temp thing right.

There we go. :)  I need to work on my communication perhaps. :)

Maybe I'm a bit slow too ;-)

Don't know yet if I like it that way ...
But now I see the point; and why somebody might prefer it that way.
I wouldn't be so sure now on cutting the ";" cascade out now.
I would say - but just now - that there is no pipe vs cascade thing.

Thanks for ringing the bell ....

Thanks for being open to discussing it. :)  But I would really suggest
finding some project (something with a Seaside web site would be a

I'm writing an interpreter for a scripting language that I have in mind and I 
can't wait to finish it, and get some critics out of you !

good one) of decent size and implementing it in Smalltalk.  There is
really nothing quite like this language and many things look a bit
different, and if you're open to it, extremely elegant when translated
to "the Smalltalk way".  I had many concerns about the language myself
when I first came here, but now I find I like the Smalltalk way the
best.


Anyway thanks a lot for your patience an the "Re: pipe" thread.