<div dir="ltr">If my head didn't explode, does that mean I'm not quite as new as I still feel?<div><br></div><div>I still have to keep smacking myself to identify the real objects and their behavior instead of pushing things around, but I actually followed this!</div>
<div><br></div><div>Thanks...it was a good example that made blocks seem a little "friendlier."</div><div><br></div><div>Take care,</div><div><br></div><div>Rob<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 2:14 PM, Bert Freudenberg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bert@freudenbergs.de">bert@freudenbergs.de</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Am 03.10.2008 um 11:02 schrieb Randal L. Schwartz:<div class="Ih2E3d"><br>
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Bert> That would be a perfect opportunity to employ #valueWithPossibleArgument:.<br>
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And with this, the newbies heads have exploded. :)<br>
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Hehe :) If they followed the thread closely they will have noticed that this is a tangent, the original recommendation was to factor this out into a separate method and use a local return. And that's still the way you should do it.<br>
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Something to take away would be that Squeak lets you implement the control structures you need rather easily, which is great once you need it.<br><font color="#888888">
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