Squeak Smalltalk: Language Reference needs update (Was: Arrayliterals have changed?)

Ken Causey ken at ineffable.com
Thu Aug 22 22:21:11 UTC 2002


OK.  That makes sense.  How about a compromise.  A link to the Brace
Arrays section in the section on Literal Arrays?  This is supposed to be
a reference meaning that one is supposed to be able to find what one is
looking for without scanning through the entire document.

Ken

On Thu, 2002-08-22 at 17:02, Bob Arning wrote:
> On 22 Aug 2002 16:35:58 -0500 Ken Causey <ken at ineffable.com> wrote:
> >Ah exactly!  Shame on me for not finding it.  But!  This should be up in
> >the "Literals (Constant Expressions)" section immediately after
> >"Constant Arrays (Instances of class Array)".  At least it should be in
> >the Literals sections somewhere since that's what it is, right?
> 
> Well, it's not a literal. That's the nice thing about it. It's all evaluated at run-time and can contain expressions. e.g.:
> 
> 	{String instanceCount. World submorphs size. Time now printString. 'etc,',' etc'}
> 
> which right now evaluates to
> 
> 	 #(113132 12 '6:01:53 pm' 'etc, etc')
> 
> but could be different later.
> 
> Cheers,
> Bob
> 
> 





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