Why we should remove {} from Squeak

Richard A. O'Keefe ok at atlas.otago.ac.nz
Wed Oct 3 04:25:12 UTC 2001


danielv at netvision.net.il wrote:
	> but with your point of view =
	> a good caching we could get rid of #() ;) this would be fun.
	Which is more alien to Smalltalk and more surprising (an object that's
	implicitly shared with all subclass instances?! - not a shared variable,
	an implicitly shared *object*! that can be modified!) than {}, and
	semantically weaker.
	
String literals are just like #() in this respect.




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