thisCompiler special variable
Helge Horch
Helge.Horch at munich.netsurf.de
Sun May 21 11:49:34 UTC 2000
At 11:57 21.05.2000 +0200, Stefan Matthias Aust wrote:
>At 02:58 18.05.00 -0400, Stephen Pair wrote:
> >someMethod
> > ^thisCompiler valueNow: [
> > IdentityDictionary new
> > at: 'US' put: 'United States';
> > at: 'UK' put: 'United Kingdom';
> > yourself].
>
>in this case, I'd prefer the ##( ) syntax which is easier to read and
>already supported for Dolphin and VisualAge. I think, there's a file-in
>for VisualWorks, done by Vassili Bykow (I'm sorry, I probably misspelled
>that name).
Just s/w/v/.
The fileIn in question is actually an excellent tutorial, "The Hitch
Hiker's Guide to the Smalltalk Compiler":
<http://smalltalkchronicles.com/edition2-1/st_compiler.htm>
By and large, it's applicable to Squeak, too. Make sure to have a look at
the implementors of #isPvtSelector (recently refactored by guess-whom)
before implementing #isPrivateSelector...
Cheers,
Helge
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