tim

you cannot think that people want to write in chunk format.
look at pepsi, ian found a nice syntax.

Stef

On 23 août 06, at 17:36, tim Rowledge wrote:

> I'm not sure I understand this obsession with syntax for scripting.  
> Why on earth does it need to be human readable?
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> We have quite good tools for writing Smalltalk.
> We can store the appropriate script/package/incantation in some form.
> We can read it into a 'script runner' image.
> Done.
>
> Who cares if it looks like
> System addMethodNamed:'raspberryTea' toClass:'Fooble'  
> withContents:'^42'
> or
> abd45be89f20d0562dacf
>  when examined in a text editor? Text editors are *so* last century.
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> tim
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