About {} and its limits
stéphane ducasse
ducasse at iam.unibe.ch
Fri Feb 11 07:33:22 UTC 2005
Hi Yoshiki
but we are talking about printed form this is why we have
selfEvaluatingForm may be this should be text
I have another point/question
instead of
self assertCode: '{Rectangle new . Object new}' print: 'anArray #(nil
corner: nil an Object)'.
I would prefer
self assertCode: '{Rectangle new . Object new}' print: 'anArray #(
'nil corner: nil' 'an Object')'.
so that I can see the actual elements. What do you think about that.
Stef
On 11 févr. 05, at 0:18, Yoshiki Ohshima wrote:
> Hello,
>
>>>> And, could any native speaker confirm "self-evaluating" is even the
>>>> correct term to use?
>>>
>>> Yes. "Self-evaluating" is correct. You need the hyphen because it's a
>>> compound adjective.
>>
>> Thanks, I actually meant the semantics :)
>
> The smiley means that this is a joke? I think you raised a valid
> point. If the expression doesn't give you the original (in term of
> #==) it doesn't (at least to me) qualify to be a self-evaluating
> expression.
>
>> When I googled for it there were all sorts of discussion about
>> self-evaluation forms one had to submit to someone as a test, or so it
>> seemed ...
>
> ^^;
>
> My good old big company days, there was a peer-evaluation form and
> one of my colleage goes something like: "he doesn't write comments in
> his code."
>
> -- Yoshiki
>
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