[new to smalltalk] confusing problem: BlockContext >> cannot
return
Marcus Denker
denker at iam.unibe.ch
Wed Nov 24 17:02:33 UTC 2004
Am 24.11.2004 um 17:52 schrieb Herbert König:
> "-----Start Workspace"
>
> "This example string is to be converted into an object"
> str := 'G 0.000 38.199 1 2 68150.071 97542.712'.
>
> "As several types of strings have to be converted into different
> objects I feed them into a kind of method dictionary: to avoid a
> procedural case statement"
>
> dict := Dictionary new.
> dict add: 'G' -> ([ :aLine | ^ Random new.]);
>
keep in mind that a return in a block will return from the method that
the
Block was defined in, not the block.
Blocks return the value of the last expression of that block. So you
need to just
do
dict add: 'G' -> ([ :aLine | Random new.]);
Marcus
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