malicorne wrote:
> 
> Hello everyone,
> 
>   I'm very new to Squeak and Smalltalk.  Very.  I found Squeak during a
> web search on patterns.  I'm quite surprised by the quality of the
> offering.  So much that I bought Mark Guzdial's book on Squeak,
> "Object-Oriented Design with Multimedia Applications" that I follow page
> by page in order to become at ease with the environment.
> 
>   Pardon me if this kind of query does not belong here.  If so, please
> tell me where I could get an answer to the following.

This is the only Squeak list (except for very specialised ones!). Your
question very much belongs here.

> 
>   The very first example in the book creates a simple class with some
> simple methods.  The problem I have is that Squeak won't accept the simple
> following code, the "Nothing more expected" being the Squeak error message
> after Accept in the Browser :
> 
> greeting
> "Return a predefined greeting"
>  Nothing more expected -> ^'HALLO !'
> 
>   The caret character is actually an arrow pointing up.  This is what I
> obtain when I press the caret key on my German keyboard.  In emacs it
> yields a normal caret liek above.  The environment is MVC and it is
> Squeak 3.0.  Linux as per Mandrake 8.0.  The "Nothing more expected"
> error message just don't  tell me anything.  I do not know what it could
> mean.
> 
>   Anyone know what I'm talking about ?  What is to be done ?

I'm not sure what you're trying to do. Do you think you could give us a
page reference to the code in Mark's book? (You're certainly creating a
syntax error -- hence the "Nothing more expected" -- but without knowing
more it's pretty hard to say more than that.)

Cheers

John

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