[Newbies] Re: Defining a binary message selector

Michael Haupt mhaupt at gmail.com
Mon Nov 16 16:26:43 UTC 2009


Hi Andy,

On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 4:49 PM, Andy Burnett
<andy.burnett at knowinnovation.com> wrote:
> Brilliant, so I was on the right track - sort of!  Now for the important
> question.  Where are the special characters defined?  I looked in Smalltalk,
> and found a SpecialObjectsArray  (along with a warning saying "don't touch
> this"!).  I am not planning to touch it, but I am curious to understand how
> the system works.

eh, I guess you're looking for that bit of the Squeak scanner that
initialises the character tables ... look at Scanner class >>
#initialize.

Best,

Michael


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