Am 10.02.2005 um 15:03 schrieb stéphane ducasse:

> hi all
>
> we (the guys from berne and roel) spent a great morning discussing 
> about the problem of self-evaluating representation. This is a bit too 
> long to send the result of the discussion sicne this is related to the 
> difference between meta and base programming.
>
> But we came up with a satisfactory fix for Array:
> Display the most that we can when we have the information.
> Please have a look and let us know, because we think that this is a 
> good fix, cheap and
> (if you remember I was against {} but with this fix in fact I changed 
> my mind after the discussions and I
> prefer them compared to #(). But {} printing should be fixed with 
> these changes. )

Neat :)

Two things I spotted:

* I'd rather call "super printOn:" in Array if it's neither literal nor 
self-evaluating
* printAsSelfEvaluatingFormOn: would look nicer using do:separatedBy:

And, could any native speaker confirm "self-evaluating" is even the 
correct term to use?

- Bert -