Challenge (was: Re: [Squeak 0003836]: nil ~= 1and: [1 isNil] is
parsed+compiled without complaint)
David Corking
lists at dcorking.com
Thu Jul 13 14:49:34 UTC 2006
On 7/13/06, Bert Freudenberg <bert at impara.de> wrote:
> >> Heh. My favourite strange expression is this:
> >>
> >> # "hi there" :== '_'
> >>
> >> 1) Who can guess what the result is WITHOUT trying it?
> >> 2) Who can explain what's happening?
> >> 3) Do we need to fix it?
> >>
> >
> > Nothing happens here except 'Nothing more expected'. What is supposed
> > to happen.
>
> Make sure what looks like spaces are actually spaces - when
> copy&pasting code from an email some systems convert a space (32)
> into a non-breaking space (160) which the parser does not accept as
> whitespace.
OK. Now I have pasted it correctly (the underscore in my email
systems charset magically changed to a left arrow in the Squeak
workspace.) I changed the space characters by hand.
Now nothing at all happens.
What happens on your image? Which image are you using?
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