[squeak-dev] Compiling {} statically?

Ronald Spengler ron.spengler at gmail.com
Tue Nov 24 15:04:41 UTC 2009


<2cents>

It's great having a late binding list construct, but I must admit: I
don't like the syntax very much, and typing the periods bugs me when I
don't need to. I'd like to keep #() for that reason, and for
compatibility with other dialects.

</2cents>

2009/11/24 Stéphane Rollandin <lecteur at zogotounga.net>:
>>
>> OTOH I have seen newbies use {} exclusively, apparently unaware of #().
>> It's an odd construct for sure. Just too convenient to kick out.
>
> and it allows nice tricks:
>
> prog := #(funcall (lambda (x) (sqrt x)) 5) asCons
>
> in
> http://www.zogotounga.net/comp/squeak/lispkit.htm
>
>
> Stef
>
>
>
>



-- 
Ron



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