[squeak-dev] Clamato
Bert Freudenberg
bert at freudenbergs.de
Mon Sep 7 22:24:35 UTC 2009
On 04.09.2009, at 20:53, Dan Ingalls wrote:
> Hi, Avi
>> I tried to leave out the cascade syntax, but found it was too useful
>> and had to put it back.
>
> I love it! I've always felt a bit sheepish about cascades, but I
> put them in because it was a pattern that we found useful in St72
> and I wanted to preserve as much as possible of that convenience.
Me too! And how well the ";" works with "." to separate statement is
amazing. Others are imitating the cascade style by "chaining" but it
looks weird and is limited at the same time; see e.g. this message I
just got on a Python list:
Begin forwarded message:
> it would be awesome to set up chaining so we could do something like
>
> layer['timer'].save().clear().
> fillStyle('#fff').
> fillRect(10, startTimerY, endTimerX, offsetTimerY).
> restore();
- Bert -
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