Squeak readable to most people on this list, but is it to everyone?

Aaron Lanterman lanterma at ece.gatech.edu
Wed Mar 3 22:14:25 UTC 2004


On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, Avi Bryant wrote:

> parens?  I'm thinking of things like subtly adjusting the spacing so
> that unary selectors are slightly closer to their receivers, etc.

Hmmm... in the parsing, the unary messages tend not to give me trouble. I
just pretend I'm writing in Forth.

It's the binary and keywords that trip me up, if there's a very long line.
I find a series of short lines with good temp variable names far easier to
read than long Smalltalk lines.

- Aaron

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