<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 10:53 AM, tim Rowledge <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tim@rowledge.org" target="_blank">tim@rowledge.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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On 06-10-2013, at 10:36 AM, Eliot Miranda <<a href="mailto:eliot.miranda@gmail.com">eliot.miranda@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 2:04 PM, Chris Muller <<a href="mailto:asqueaker@gmail.com">asqueaker@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> >> This precise proposal is argued against by "Inline Message Pattern"<br>
> >> (pg. 172 of the book). Method body's would be starting in all<br>
> >> different vertical places, your eyes have to "find" it. And by<br>
> >> consuming more vertical space it will result in more required<br>
> >> scrolling. Methods are often very short, would we really want to see<br>
> >> the message pattern take up more space than the body?<br>
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> > You're putting up a straw man here. Nobody is proposing to always put a keyword on a new line. That would make no sense at all.<br>
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> Oh, I thought that's what you were proposing as an alternative to<br>
> Tim's pragma idea. I guess I misunderstood.<br>
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> Tim's pragma idea was a joke…<br>
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Yes, sort of. I bet you could make something of that kind which would provide formatting help. An optional wotsit that the Shout & prettyprinter would take notice of. Not a lot different to ideas about optional type information provision.<br>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes, and one can tailor shout to an extent. But it would be global, not local.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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The real joke is that even if someone spent the time to implement it, nobody would use it and in a few years time somebody would be stridently demanding that such a system must be developed or Smalltalk would be *destroyed* - *destroyed I tell you!!!!* by Visual javsharp++<br>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div>+1 </div></div><div><br></div><div>hence we're left with the war between visual thinkers (rectangular blocks) and verbal thinkers (pascal formatting). just throwing wood on the fire ;-)</div>
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