Squeak (ST80) syntax

David N. Smith (IBM) dnsmith at watson.ibm.com
Thu Feb 17 21:04:19 UTC 2000


At 23:29 -0700 2/15/2000, Lawson English wrote:
>On Tue, Feb 15, 2000 8:37 PM, Dan Ingalls <Dan.Ingalls at disney.com> wrote:
> >>which is not nice. These nops could be called something like
>...SNIP...
>
>It seems to me that "noise words" are useful for scripting languages ala
>AppleScript, and might be appropriate for the end-user scripting interface
>that has been hinted at for Squeak, but NOT for the more formal language
>that more experienced developers would be using.

HyperCard's scripting language had noise words too, 'the' coming to mind as bad example. I haven't programmed it in a decade but I think I recall a horrid set of rules which specified when it was noise and when it was required and when you couldn't use it at all.

Dave
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