On 5/17/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Dan Ingalls</b> <<a href="mailto:Dan@squeakland.org">Dan@squeakland.org</a>> wrote:<br><div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><div><div>Now the other side of your question, which I take to be</div>
<div><b>Why do you want to write expressions without spaces?</b></div>
<div>This is a stylistic thing and it truly varies for me depending on
what kind of code I am writing. I like to be able to write
"a+1" with no spaces when I think of it (and want the reader
to see it) as effectively a single symbol. Other times I want
the reader to think about the fact that we add one here, and then I
write "a + 1". I like having the choice between these
two modes of expression, and that's why I want to be able to leave out
the spaces.</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br>I have always wondered why the standard image doesn't come with a next method and an increment method for Integers, where next would answer x + 1 and increment would set x to be x + 1.
<br><br>I remember once I had to write some counter, and I ended up writing a wrapper class just so that I can have something like that.<br>
<br>Duncan.<br></div></div>