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<p>Hi all,</p>
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<p>I just evaluated the following line and was surprised by the result:</p>
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<p><span>Compiler evaluate: '' for: 42.</span></p>
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<p>The answer was nil, whereas I rather would have expected <span><strike>the answer to life the universe and everything</strike> 42, as it is the case for full methods compiled on an object. What do you think about this, which should be the right output?</span></p>
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<p><span>I was even more surprised after taking a look into the relevant Parser implementation, which is #<span>statements:innerBlock:blockNode:. Actually, the 'inner' argument's sole purpose is to use 'nil' instead of 'self' as a return value if there are
zero statements. If we would not like to have this extra rule for doIt snippets, we would only have to change #<span>method:context:[encoder:] and pass 'false' instead of 'doit' to #<span>statements:innerBlock:.</span></span></span></span></p>
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<p><span><span><span><span>I'm probably missing some logical consequences of the syntactic concept of blocks, methods, and doits, so I would like to hear your thoughts on this.</span></span></span></span></p>
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<p><span><span><span><span>Best,</span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span><span><span><span>Christoph</span></span></span></span></p>
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