doIfNotNil: -- let's bake the other half

btanksley at hifn.com btanksley at hifn.com
Tue Oct 17 18:44:23 UTC 2000


From: Lex Spoon [mailto:lex at cc.gatech.edu]
>btanksley at hifn.com wrote:
>> I'd also prefer to place the message on the block, not the 
>> expression.  A
>> block knows how to execute; why should an expression have to know?

>To put it more generally, it's nice for Westerners if the sequence of
>action tends to go from left to right.  In the doIfNotNil: family, this
>remains true.  In the valueUnlessNil: version, it's not.
>So have I convinced you?  :)

Absolutely!  Thank you.

Of course, I mentioned that I got my start in Forth, so problems have I none
with sentances unusual grammar possessing.  ;-)

>-Lex

-Billy





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