[squeak-dev] Re: SmalltalkImage current vs. Smalltalk

Bert Freudenberg bert at freudenbergs.de
Thu Mar 4 12:32:17 UTC 2010


On 04.03.2010, at 06:19, Ronald Spengler wrote:
> 
> OTOH, it
> confused the *crap* out of me at first when I kept trying to browse
> Smalltalk (out of only curiosity) and the browser kept opening
> something called a SystemDictionary. I expected that Smalltalk, having
> a capital 'S', would be a class.

Well, then you learned that classes are nothing special, they are just objects with a globally visible name. And the convention for global variables is to capitalize them :)

- Bert -





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