[Newbies] more of a general smalltalk question

David Zmick dz0004455 at gmail.com
Sun Jul 6 14:51:13 UTC 2008


There's no education like source code. :)

I agree

 On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 7:28 AM, Randal L. Schwartz <merlyn at stonehenge.com>
wrote:

> >>>>> "Sean" == Sean Allen <sean at monkeysnatchbanana.com> writes:
> Sean> but i'm using squeak as my 'really learn smalltalk' einvironment
> so...
> Sean> can any suggest any good reading, books, websites, whatever for
> learning
> Sean> the ins and outs of how exceptions, signals etc work in smalltalk.
> i'm
> Sean> interested in both an 'end user' perspective as a start but getting
> into
> Sean> the nitty gritty of the why of the implementation as well.
>  For me, the best way to understand the Exception class was to browse it,
> browse references to it, and also to the subclasses, especially with
> something
> like Seaside loaded that makes interesting uses of Exceptions to deal with
> continuations.  Seeing how it works in practice made it finally go click.
>  There's no education like source code. :)
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