If my head didn't explode, does that mean I'm not quite as new as I still feel?
I still have to keep smacking myself to identify the real objects and their behavior instead of pushing things around, but I actually followed this!
Thanks...it was a good example that made blocks seem a little "friendlier."
Take care,
Rob
On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 2:14 PM, Bert Freudenberg
<bert@freudenbergs.de> wrote:
Am 03.10.2008 um 11:02 schrieb Randal L. Schwartz:
"Bert" == Bert Freudenberg <bert@freudenbergs.de> writes:
Bert> That would be a perfect opportunity to employ #valueWithPossibleArgument:.
And with this, the newbies heads have exploded. :)
Hehe :) If they followed the thread closely they will have noticed that this is a tangent, the original recommendation was to factor this out into a separate method and use a local return. And that's still the way you should do it.
Something to take away would be that Squeak lets you implement the control structures you need rather easily, which is great once you need it.
- Bert -