[squeak-dev] Re: Assignment vs binary selector
Eliot Miranda
eliot.miranda at gmail.com
Sat Nov 22 18:44:38 UTC 2008
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 3:39 AM, Paolo Bonzini <bonzini at gnu.org> wrote:
> Igor Stasenko wrote:
> > One more thing which i discovered in current parser:
> >
> > #$A inspect
> >
> > returns a character, not symbol. Is this correct to the syntaxt rules?
>
> It should be a syntax error, period. Like
>
> > a :== 5
>
> should.
>
> One idea I was toying with was to allow . in binary selectors, except
> for the special #. of course; this goes along with the idea of
> considering . to be a statement terminator only if not followed by
> whitespace (avoiding the unintuitive behavior of {1.0.2.0}). For example,
>
> 1..5 do: [ :i | Transcript show: i ]
+1000
Yes!! Yes!! Yes!!
etc...
>
>
> Paolo
>
>
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