Getting double semi as sequencer harvested.

Jason Johnson jason.johnson.081 at gmail.com
Tue Sep 4 02:58:42 UTC 2007


On 9/4/07, Randal L. Schwartz <merlyn at stonehenge.com> wrote:
> >>>>> "Jason" == Jason Johnson <jason.johnson.081 at gmail.com> writes:
>
> I just don't like version creep in languages.  Smalltalk has remained
> relatively stable for nearly 3 decades.  Anything to disrupt that has got to
> meet a pretty high standard for me personally.

Fair enough.  I do agree with the sentiment that when things stop
advancing they start decaying, but in very simple/elegant languages
like Smalltalk or Lisp we can advance in the libraries without syntax
change.  Adding syntax can make things easier but it's not for free,
it's a cost of added complexity.

But if we must go with this thing then I would prefer the one in
Vassili's log.  That was the best argument and usage for this I have
seen yet, not to mention much more clear (to me) then the ;;.

Oh, but I like the :> better then :).  Maybe the best would be ->



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