[squeak-dev] #<-

tim Rowledge tim at rowledge.org
Sun Dec 15 18:59:19 UTC 2019



> On 2019-12-15, at 3:38 AM, Jakob Reschke <forums.jakob at resfarm.de> wrote:
> 
> Sometimes I think one should separate Smalltalk the programming language from Smalltalk as a scripting language (in Vivide or your spreadsheets, Christoph). I find such brevity cool for the latter but I despise it for the former.

Also +1. What next - 
1 value: 4 value: 'two' 
being handled by converting the 1 to #one, sending #isKindOf: to the second arg and then coercively converting the first argument to a compatible class via an indirection dictionary provided by a database lookup from the receiver? 

tim
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