[Newbies] Adding method to Smallinteger class

[David Mitchell]

OK, Bert is having a little fun. Certainly good to learn that self is the
default value.

But I wouldn't think of this as idiomatic smalltalk style.

I would prefer to follow "Interesting Return Value" [Beck]. I also factored
out the return, since that is the same in both branches.

larger: anInteger
       ^ self > anInteger
               ifTrue: [self]
               ifFalse: [anInteger]



On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 4:39 PM, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de>wrote:

> On 23.04.2010, at 23:19, Herbert König wrote:
> >
> > Hi Randal,
> >
> >
> > RLS>   larger: anInteger
> > RLS>   ^self max: anInteger
> > RLS> Code re-use, bay-bee.
> >
> > true but couldn't resist to throw blocks at a newbie myself :-))
>
> Sure, but two blocks are just too scary ;)
> Much more fun to figure out why this works:
>
> larger: anInteger
>        anInteger > self ifTrue: [^ anInteger]
>
> - Bert -
>
>
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