[squeak-dev] Re: Text Editors
Bert Freudenberg
bert at freudenbergs.de
Sun Aug 2 20:04:19 UTC 2009
On 02.08.2009, at 21:59, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
>>>>>> "Bert" == Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de> writes:
>
> Bert> Commment ∉ Literals
>
> Yes, I understand that.
>
> To put the data into a comment means some magic has to happen to parse
> source text to get at the value.
>
> To put the data into a literal means I simply call the method to get
> the value.
>
> What's the downside of having it as a literal?
>
> I know the downside of having it as a comment: far more mechanism,
> and thus,
> more fragile code and maintenance.
Literals are actual objects in the image.
- Bert -
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