Thanks for all the feedback and analogies to Java. In addition to the original question...<br><br>Given:<br>| a b c |<br>a := 6 // 2.<br>b := a asCharacter.<br>c := b isMemberOf: Character.<br>Transcript show: 'Member of Char: ', c, ' b = ', b; cr.<br>
<br>Result:<br>Member of Char: true b = <br><br>I was wondering why b is not getting displayed.<br><br>Thanks in advance!<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 4:39 PM, Alain_Rastoul <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:alr.dev@free.fr">alr.dev@free.fr</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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a String in smalltalk: 'hello'<br>
aString in java : "hello"<br>
a Character in smalltalk : $h<br>
a character in java: 'h'<br>
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Cheers<br>
Alain<br>
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<div><div></div><div class="h5">> bool = $a worked like a charm! So what exactly does $ do? I'm more<br>
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> with Java and am trying to break that thought process... relating Squeak<br>
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