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<p>Hi, thanks for your arguments!</p>
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<p>I think that #<- would be symmetric to #->, such as #< and #>, etc. ...</p>
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Another example would be [Dictionary newFrom: {<span style="font-size:12pt">1 <- #one. 2 <- #two. 3 <- #three}], but I agree, readability is quite subjective here.</span></p>
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>From my point of view, Stef, implementing #<- with a completely different meaning would be confusing. I guess this depends on your specific domain.
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt">@Jakob:</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12pt">> </span><span style="font-size:12pt">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.</span><br>
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<div>Interesting statement! From a scripting perspective, it would be great to have a maximum number of convenient utils. However, I find it always confusing when you start building a solution via scripting and then need to rephrase your code because scripting
syntax is not available for real programs. This compromises the idea of the One Uniform Smalltalk.</div>
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<div>Best,</div>
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<div id="x_divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="font-size:11pt"><b>Von:</b> Squeak-dev <squeak-dev-bounces@lists.squeakfoundation.org> im Auftrag von tim Rowledge <tim@rowledge.org><br>
<b>Gesendet:</b> Sonntag, 15. Dezember 2019 19:59:19<br>
<b>An:</b> The general-purpose Squeak developers list<br>
<b>Betreff:</b> Re: [squeak-dev] #<-</font>
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> On 2019-12-15, at 3:38 AM, Jakob Reschke <forums.jakob@resfarm.de> wrote:<br>
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> 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.<br>
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Also +1. What next - <br>
1 value: 4 value: 'two' <br>
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?
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Useful random insult:- Ought to have a warning label on his forehead.<br>
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