18 Feb
2005
18 Feb
'05
1:23 a.m.
Joseph,
- 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?
I am by no mean an old timer, but I think the original convention was to write:
(Class name)>(method category name)>(method name)
but the method category name is not necessary to specify unique method so people omit it and write:
(Class name)>>(method name)
. Interestingly, Smalltalk can have '>>' (or we usually write #>> to signify it is a Symbol), as a method selector. For example, if you evaluate a line like:
Class>>#name
in a workspace, you'll get an instance of CompileMethod that is bound to the #name method of Class.
-- Yoshiki