Getting double semi as sequencer harvested.

Jon Hylands jon at huv.com
Tue Sep 4 15:27:43 UTC 2007


On Tue, 4 Sep 2007 08:08:01 -0700, tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:

> And for those of us that find this 'shout' stuff to be an annoying,  
> garish, pointless distraction?

Personally, I don't use Shout, and I think this whole pipe thing is a silly
waste of time. I've been using Smalltalk continuously for 20 years now, and
I think the clean simple syntax is great. I also personally never use the
literal collection syntax {a.b.c}, because I prefer most of the baseline
non-UI Squeak that I write to be easily portable to other Smalltalks.

My point was, if we're going to add this to the base image, and many
developers use Shout, someone could enhance Shout to highlight ;; in a
different way, which would solve at least some of the problem of
distinguishing ;; from ; for that subset of developers.

Later,
Jon

ps - since I just turned 40 a couple days ago, that means I've been using
Smalltalk for half my life - pretty cool :-)

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