Why we should remove {} from Squeak
Lex Spoon
lex at cc.gatech.edu
Wed Oct 3 16:06:35 UTC 2001
>
> * As I said in my first reply to Stephane, I don't mind having an object
> that's created at compile time, so long as it's immutable (because its
> semantics then make its history and time of creation irrelevant). So
> Booleans, Blocks (to be precise, closures, if they were), Characters,
> Integers and Floats are okay. Arrays and Strings I expect to be mutable,
> so they are not ok.
Actually, blocks, characters, large integers, and floats are all mutable
in Squeak, too. It's just not a problem because people know better than
to modify these things.
-Lex
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