Newbie question

Blake blake at kingdomrpg.com
Mon Jul 23 21:24:38 UTC 2007


On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 13:51:33 -0700, Bert Freudenberg  
<bert at freudenbergs.de> wrote:

> So there are some who think this is a useful construct, also many  
> "scripting languages" have it. But it goes against the "spirit" of  
> Smalltalk. Assignment itself is not "pure" but this kind of multi- 
> assignment was considered  to do more harm than good. Whereas the brace  
> construct for array construction was too useful to pass.

Whoa. Reminds me of PL/I.

PL/I also had a "BY NAME" directive, which would allow you to assign two  
not-identical structures by their common fields, regardless of order.

I like it. I guess that makes me evil.



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