On 10.05.2012, at 13:25, H. Hirzel wrote:

> On 5/10/12, Levente Uzonyi <leves at elte.hu> wrote:
>> So it's not about dynamic arrays, but arrays created with the brace
>> syntax. And yes, that was introduced in Squeak.
> 
> Any idea when and for which reason?

Dan Ingalls, 1997: "Larry Tesler added the Curly Brace construct to Apple Smalltalk back around 1985, and there it sat in Apple's APDA (Apple Programmer and Developer Association) Smalltalk release for about a decade. Then we resurrected that image as the basis of Squeak, and I've never bothered to tear it out."

More at http://www.cc.gatech.edu/fac/mark.guzdial/squeak/notes/curlybraces.html

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