[Q] perform: selector

David Faught dave_faught at yahoo.com
Fri Dec 20 19:37:06 UTC 2002


On Friday 20 December 2002 20:18, Adrian Lienhard wrote:
>Just having scanned your mail, I estimate that it should say (note
>the right parenthese):
>
> self addLabel: (self perform: aSelector) asString.
>
>you may probably want to send the message named aSelector first and
>then transform the resulting object to a string.

You are correct!  This works fine.  Every time I think I have Squeak's
order of operations figured out, I get surprised.  Maybe Squeak is more
closely related to Lisp than I thought ...

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