[Newbies] Squeak-specific syntax

Matthew Fulmer tapplek at gmail.com
Thu Oct 30 14:49:01 UTC 2008


On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 04:43:49PM -0500, Mark Volkmann wrote:
> I know that the syntax for literal and dynamic arrays is specific to  
> Squeak.

The literal syntax #(1 2 3) is standard, I think, but not the
dynamic syntax {1. 2 .3}

> Is the @ method in the Number class for creating Point objects  
> specific to Squeak?

No; that's standard Smalltalk

> Is there any other syntax that is specific to Squeak?

FFI syntax is unique to squeak. It requires the FFI package to
be loaded to use it

Pragma syntax is unique to squeak, I believe. This is included
in 3.9 and later images

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