Brace nodes assignment
David Pennell
dpennell at fastmail.fm
Wed Apr 3 13:47:09 UTC 2002
Yes, they used to be there. See
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/fac/mark.guzdial/squeak/notes/curlybraces.html
and
http://squeak.cs.uiuc.edu/mail/squeak.old/msg00065.html for background.
-david
> -----Original Message-----
> From: squeak-dev-admin at lists.squeakfoundation.org
> [mailto:squeak-dev-admin at lists.squeakfoundation.org] On
> Behalf Of Kris Gybels
> Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2002 7:25 AM
> To: squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org
> Subject: Brace nodes assignment
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> I distinctively seem to remember that once it was possible in
> squeak to
> do something like:
>
> { x. y } := { 1. 2.}
>
> to give two variables a value at once. But when I tried this just a
> minute ago it didn't parse. Is my memory failing on me and
> was it just
> never possible to begin with or do I have the wrong syntax? If this
> feature was in there before but is now removed can anybody
> tell me why
> it was removed? It seemed like such a good language feature to me :)
>
>
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