Perhaps naive question about the colon.

Blake blake at kingdomrpg.com
Thu Dec 2 11:22:33 UTC 2004


On Thu, 02 Dec 2004 19:05:01 +0800, Yar Hwee Boon <hboon at motionobj.com>  
wrote:

>> caveman light fire with flintAndTinder usingForFuel twigsAndStraw.
>
> Well.. at the very least, "caveman light fire with flintAndTinder  
> usingForFuel twigsAndStraw" is already valid syntax now, its a chain of  
> simple message sends, no?

Aha! It was a naive question.<s>

Thanks for bearing with me. I've never gotten used to that construct. Very  
often in the code it's done with line-breaks, and I think I had attributed  
significance to those.




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