[FYI] Java vs Squeak/Smalltalk
Joerg Beekmann
jbeekmann.deepcove at telus.net
Fri Jan 18 17:56:03 UTC 2002
>Everything is an object ( no primitive types which are not objects ).
>Therefore, no need to understand language constructs which separate the
>two. As far as the programmer is concerned, there is nothing in the
>environment which appears to be of a fundamentally different character from
>everything else.
Almost but not quite true. For example the following shows the primative
types poking through:
(ByteArray new: 5) at: 1 put: 8
v.s.
(ByteArray new: 5) at: 1 put: 'foo'
Joerg
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