[Newbies] Re: Re: error trap

[stéphane ducasse]

>>
>> parse "into collections automatically". You didn't inspectIt for  
>> verifying
>> your (false) claim, didn't you.
>
> No I didn't!  The { } just looked so wrong and like C!  I'm used to  
> #()
> which of course doesn't work.
>
>  Also, have a look at the implementors of
>> #caseOf: and #caseOf:otherwise:, they are heavy users of literal  
>> blocks in
>> Collections ...
>
> I will!

argh! Ugly!

>> Yes. And, into the other direction, even in good core methods one  
>> often
>> finds things like
>>
>>   ^ dict at: aKey ifAbsent: [nil]

this is much better.

I would like to see caseOf:...removed from the system

> I started to write this too but thought about some of the errors  
> that people
> receive about wrong form of block and didn't want to scare people.
>
stef