On 10.05.2012, at 13:34, Bert Freudenberg wrote:

> 
> On 10.05.2012, at 13:25, H. Hirzel wrote:
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>> 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."
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> More at http://www.cc.gatech.edu/fac/mark.guzdial/squeak/notes/curlybraces.html
> 
> - Bert -


Speaking of brace constructs, I kind-of liked the assignment:

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/1999-March/011392.html

(but it never decompiled correctly I think)

- Bert -