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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