Cascading ?
Klaus D. Witzel
klaus.witzel at cobss.com
Thu Aug 17 11:02:14 UTC 2006
On Thu, 17 Aug 2006 12:43:54 +0200, Lukas Renggli wrote:
>> >> test:= MyObjectModel
>> >> test
>> >> getAllChanges;
>> >> storageStrategy storeNow;
>> >> readyToContinue
>> >>
>> I know how to make it work in fact. What I don't understand is why the
>> smalltalk doesn't allow this kind of construction.
>
> Because it is ambiguous. How should the compiler know if it should
> send #readyToContinue to 'test' or the result of 'test
> storageStrategy'?
It would be interesting to find a language construct which does support
Damien's expression. Not that I want everybody to write as much cascades
as possible but, I want to be able to do so.
/Klaus
> Lukas
>
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