[Newbies] Re: error trap

[Klaus D. Witzel]

On Fri, 11 Aug 2006 23:00:03 +0200, stéphane ducasse wrote:
Klaus wrote:
>>> Yes. And, into the other direction, even in good core methods one often
>>> finds things like
>>>
>>>   ^ dict at: aKey ifAbsent: [nil]
>
> this is much better.

Why do you call failures in understanding things like this better, Stef?  
Whoever writes such statements, has no idea about an object's value versus  
a block's value and especially no idea about when and why execution of a  
block of code can and should be delayed (not to speak about performance  
impact).

> I would like to see caseOf:...removed from the system

And replace it by what? Why would you limit the expressive power of the  
software developer, Stef?

/Klaus

> stef