Hi Noury!

I also have been playing with a smalltalk syntax:
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package MyPackage

Bar < Foo (a b c).

Foo class foo: x {
	5 + 6 }
	
Foo bar {
	^ self bar }
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For instance...

Cheeres,
Alexandre

Am May 29, 2006 um 12:58 PM schrieb Noury Bouraqadi:

>
> Le 29 mai 06, à 12:33, Ralph Johnson a écrit :
>
>> I have throught that an XML form would be good so that search engines
>> would turn the entire internet into a single searchable repository.
>> VisualWorks uses XML for input/output but it isn't a good format.  I
>> recall that another version of Smalltalk has a better version, but I
>> don't remember which one.
>>
> But, XML is hardly readable/editable by humans. I think we should  
> have both XML and non-XML formats. The first for machines and the  
> second for humans.
>
>> If you are primarily interested in publishing code in papers, you
>> ought to produce rtf or LaTex or something similar, and not worry
>> about filing it in.
>>
> No, this is not my primary goal. But, I wanted to have the  
> equivalent of MyClass>>#myMethod for providing method definitions.  
> So, I added :
>
> MyClass<<#(myMethod
>  "methodBody")
>
>
>> One thing to worry about with treating an entire source file as a
>> single Smalltalk expression is that the compiler has a limit on the
>> number of literatls.  I don't know what it is, but that will limit  
>> the
>> number of methods you can have in a file.
>>
> No, I don't want to have the entire file as a single expression,  
> but a sequence of expressions that will be parsed and evaluated  
> successively.
>
> Noury
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