Multiple Returns, was Re: Common Lisp style macros inSmalltal
k?
Stewart MacLean
stewart.maclean at nzhis.govt.nz
Thu Jan 20 03:03:18 UTC 2000
Stephen Rudlof wrote:
> You pay another price for avoiding the overhead of extra classes:
>
> If you use OpenObject in different contexts as different
> object you get
> more and more getters/selectors all belonging to just this
> one class...
Absolutely, thats why it's called Open :)
Seriously though, for the original intent (multiple return values) we're
probably just interested in using a short lived aggregate of values whilst
making the code readable.
Cheers,
Stewart
More information about the Squeak-dev
mailing list
|