Hi Joseph!
Joseph Jones darkdescendant@mac.com wrote:
Hi all,
I just started with Squeak and SmallTalk and am enjoying programming in
To not look newbyish - write Smalltalk without capital T. :)
it for the first time in a long time. I have a couple of newbie questions, though that I have not found adequate answers for elsewhere.
- What is the significance of the use of >> in many of your emails? Is
this a SmallTalkism that I missed somewhere or is this a convention used to tie a Class name and a method name together in discussions?
Yes, it is such a convention. Not sure either where it really comes from.
- How do I run Squeak in a non-ui mode? I have seen a few items
talking about -headless on the command line. Is that all there is to it?
Should be.
Thanx, joe
P.S. Imagine my surprise when, on my first day on the list, the ANN of a new leadership and all the followup mail hits me. Man, didn't know what to think about that. Fortunately (?) I am way to uninformed to converse on that topic intelligently and only hope that the best thing for the community and for Squeak comes out of it. :-)
Hehe, well - you sure picked an interesting point in time to join us! :)
The current torrent on this list is not representative, even though the traffic in general is quite high. And yes, my bet (but I am of course in the eye of the storm) is that this is something very good. But all we can do is to see how it turns out.
regards, Göran