Pragmatic Squeaking
Avi Bryant
avi at beta4.com
Sun Jan 20 03:28:53 UTC 2002
Bijan Parsia wrote:
> > What do you think it is in Ruby? Pointer arithmetic? a[1] sends the []
> > message to a. It's syntactic sugar, sure, but I've even seen a goodie
> > for squeak that allows exactly the same sugar; semantically it's identical
> > to #at:.
> Ah, I wasn't sure, was punchy, and was just kidding :)
> I don't recall such a goodie, but what does *that* show?
http://swiki.gsug.org:8080/sqfixes/26.html
Not that it shows anything much, except perhaps that even Smalltalkers can
be at risk of cancer of the semicolon (me, I like both syntax and coffee
sans sweetening).
Avi
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