On 8/24/06, Marcel Weiher <marcel at metaobject.com> wrote:
> Interesting discussion, as I have been wrestling with this very issue
> in my Objective-Smalltalk / stsh work for some time now.

can we play with stsh ? besides systrace shell google only found a
mail from you :)

> > MyClass defineMethod: #mymethod withBody: [ ^ self ]
>
> This is close to what I currently have, but it's not really very pretty.

My idea was to find a nice hybrid syntax of method patterns and blocks
as a notation for CompiledMethods...

#MyClass << Object.   "MyClass should become a valid identifier at this point"
MyClass instVars: #(x y);  "why is it a string in current smalltalks ???"
	
	>> [myMethod: foo with: bar|  "but parsing this sucks"
		|a b c|
		foo: qux
	]; "semicolumn strikes back :D but here it's a regular cascade"
	
	>> anotherMethodHere

Here are other ideas to give actual selectors to blocks:

##sel1: arg1 sel2: arg2 [ |locals| body ] "all this denotes a CompiledMethod"

#sel1:arg1#sel2:arg2  "enhanced symbol, where each pair selectorPart +
argument name are separated, but no space and the method declaration
needs to be a kwd message to give the body as a block

-- 
 Damien Pollet
 type less, do more