[Newbies] block in recursion, Any cure for that kind of situation?

[Marcin Tustin]

So am I right in thinking that if I get newCompiler, blocks will work as I
would expect them to (like lambdas)?

If so, how do I get the most recent version? I remember there being
something that has superceded squeakmap, but I can't seem to find it.

On Jan 22, 2008 11:42 PM, Ben Goetter <goetter at mazama.net> wrote:

> >This is a maintenance nightmare waiting to happen.  Use a proper method
> call,
>
> Squeak Smalltalk blocks are just similar enough to Scheme lambdas that I
> still fall into this trap, too.
>
> (letrec ((carre (lambda (s1 s2 s3 s4 n)
>                 (if (> n 0)
>                  (carre (segment s1 s2)
>                         (segment s2 s3)
>                         (segment s3 s4)
>                         (segment s1 s4)
>                         (- n 1))))))
>  'oops-must-remember-this-is-Squeak-not-Scheme)
>
> Ben
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