<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On 10.05.2012, at 18:52, Eliot Miranda wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 5:21 AM, Bert Freudenberg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bert@freudenbergs.de" target="_blank">bert@freudenbergs.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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On 10.05.2012, at 13:34, Bert Freudenberg wrote:<br>
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> On 10.05.2012, at 13:25, H. Hirzel wrote:<br>
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>> On 5/10/12, Levente Uzonyi <<a href="mailto:leves@elte.hu">leves@elte.hu</a>> wrote:<br>
>>> So it's not about dynamic arrays, but arrays created with the brace<br>
>>> syntax. And yes, that was introduced in Squeak.<br>
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>> Any idea when and for which reason?<br>
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> 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."<br>
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> More at <a href="http://www.cc.gatech.edu/fac/mark.guzdial/squeak/notes/curlybraces.html" target="_blank">http://www.cc.gatech.edu/fac/mark.guzdial/squeak/notes/curlybraces.html</a><br>
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Speaking of brace constructs, I kind-of liked the assignment:<br>
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<a href="http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/1999-March/011392.html" target="_blank">http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/1999-March/011392.html</a><br>
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(but it never decompiled correctly I think)<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>That's fixable :) Got an implementation?</div><div> </div></div></blockquote><br></div><div>It was there in very early Squeak. Can't be bothered to dig it out though ;)</div><br><div>
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